UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea
In February 2014, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea (UN COI) found the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK’s or North Korea’s) political prison camps to be places where the most egregious crimes against humanity are being committed, including extermination; murder; enslavement; torture; imprisonment; rape and other grave sexual violence; and persecution on political, religious, and gender grounds. Such crimes were “found by the UN COI to rise to the level of crimes against humanity in both the kwan-li-so and kyo-hwa-so [labor re-education] prisons,” and “lead to the death of prisoners in many cases.” The UN COI called on the DPRK to acknowledge the existence of the political prison camps and uphold the human rights of its citizens.
Pigeon Torture - Drawing submitted by former prisoner Mr. Kim Kwang-il (UN COI Detailed Findings Report, p. 218)
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Scale, Aeroplane and Motorcycle Torture - Drawing submitted by former prisoner Mr. Kim Kwang-il (UN COI Detailed Findings Report, p. 218)
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