Shin Dong-hyuk, a former North Korean defector, attends a public hearing at Yonsei university in Seoul, Aug. 20, 2013.
REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
By Ju-min Park and Michelle Kim
SEOUL (Reuters) – Public executions and torture are daily occurrences in North Korea’s prisons, according to dramatic testimony from former inmates at a U.N. Commission of Inquiry that opened in South Korea’s capital on Tuesday.
This is the first time that the North’s human rights record has been examined by an expert panel, although the North, now ruled by a third generation of the founding Kim family, denies that it abuses human rights. It refuses to recognize the commission and has denied access to investigators.
Harrowing accounts from defectors now living in South Korea related how guards chopped off a man’s finger, forced inmates to eat frogs and a mother to kill her own baby......
FULL ARTICLE HERE: Horror of North Korean Prison Camps Exposed at U.N. Panel Hearing | Washington Free Beacon
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