The UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday voted to create an expert group that will be tasked with exploring legal pathways to hold North Korea's leadership accountable for widespread and horrific rights abuses in the country, AFP reported.
The UN's top rights body adopted a resolution voicing deep concern at the findings in a landmark 2014 report that North Korea is wracked by "widespread and gross human rights violations ... that in many instances, constitute crimes against humanity," and which are "pursuant to policies established at the highest level of the State for decades."
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