A United Nations team will start to hear the tragic Tuesday in North Korea defector testimony, which will have the most freedom possible abuse measures or near the bottom, in the one-party state to mobilize public opinion.
An estimated 150,000-200,000 people in the Korean labor camps, according to independent estimates, defectors said that many prisoners are malnourished or dead tired.
The team will collect evidence, the South Korean capital Seoul this week, then move to Tokyo in order to solve the problem of abduction of Japanese citizens.
Korea's most famous defectors, Shin Dong Hyuk, Kim Hye Sook, another political prisoner of war camp survivor, is expected to testify in public, to witness their decades of hard work and executions during the captivity, they said.
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Letter told Reuters in June, he will witness his life in a prison called the 14 terror camps to help the eventual establishment of a criminal case against North Korea's leadership.
New, aged 30, has been born in the only defector POW camp, who escaped, "said:" This is what I should do, let the world know of the situation in order to help get rid of these camps.
This is the first time that a panel of experts has reviewed the DPRK's human rights record, despite Pyongyang, now the third generation of Kim family rule was established, denying it human rights abuses.
North Korea denied access to investigation and some experts expect the commission, where the human rights situation has a direct impact, although it will play a publicity campaign, there is little awareness of the world.
"The United Nations has tried various ways over the years in the field of human rights to pressure North Korea, which is a bit of pressure increase in the UK Middlesex University Professor of International Law Schabas," Bill said.
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"But it is clear that North Korea is a tough nut to crack and the United Nations means are limited. Need to have profound political changes in North Korea in the field of human progress."
The third KIM CLEAVES father's route
After a year of semi-ruling Korea, 30-year-old leader Kim Jong-un has changed mandatory his father and grandfather some signs. There are also signs of thaw or loss on the state of internal control strictly controlled.
Kim stepped up his father's third nuclear test and two rocket launchers and rocket weapons program, and has repeatedly stressed the army in his speech.
This year, he threatened the United States, South Korea and Japan's nuclear attack, although the country's militant action was dismissed as empty talk, Kim successfully divided Korean peninsula tensions pulling sharply higher.
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Many activists hope will be the Kim dynasty fell and leaders of the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) to be tried in Pyongyang, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) said that this is not an option at present.
: "At this stage, it is not appropriate to comment on whether or how to COI potential crimes against humanity within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court can be established, the commission said that North Korea has not signed the decree that will allow it to be indicted by the Tribunal in The Hague.
"This is better than nothing," Lee Min-BOK, defectors and Christian missionaries into the North since 2003, the use of helium balloons who sent hundreds of millions of anti-Kim leaflets, said commission.
"This is not going to work unless the regime change."
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