In February 2014, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea released the most comprehensive indictment to date of the country. In the four-hundred-page report, the commission accused North Korea of “extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions and other sexual violence, persecution on political, religious, racial and gender grounds, the forcible transfer of populations, the enforced disappearance of persons and the inhumane act of knowingly causing prolonged starvation.”
