UN wants Kim put on trial for mass killings

North Korean security chiefs and possibly even supreme leader Kim Jong-un himself should face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and mass killings bordering on genocide, UN investigators said.

Investigators told Kim in a letter they were advising the United Nations to refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court to ensure any culprits “including possibly yourself”, were held accountable.

The independent investigators’ report, the size of a telephone directory, lists atrocities including murder, torture, rape, abductions, enslavement, starvation and executions.