UN to launch probe into N Korea rights abuses
March 22, 2013  00:41
The United Nations today said it will for the first time establish a commission of inquiry into grave human rights violations in North Korea that may amount to crimes against humanity. 

The UN's Human Rights Council passed a resolution to establish a commission to probe "the systematic, widespread and grave violations of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea... with a view to ensuring full accountability, in particular where these violations may amount to crimes against humanity."

Japan and the European Union, with the backing of other Western countries including the United States, had presented the resolution, which passed with full consensus in the 47-member council.
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