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UN probe demands justice for NKorea atrocities

North Korean exiles in Geneva recounted the horrors they faced.

Kim Hyu Suk, born in 1962, said she was taken to a camp aged just 10 because her grandfather defected.

“During the 28 years that I lived in the camp, I lost my grandmother, my mother, my siblings, my children,” she told reporters.

North Koreans’ daily lives were marked by constant “surveillance, coercion, fear and punishment to preclude the expression of any dissent,” the report said.

It estimated 200,000 people from other countries had been abducted by North Korea or disappeared after going willingly.

Most were South Koreans stuck after the 1950-1953 Korean War ended, and ethnic Koreans who arrived from Japan after 1959.

Hundreds of South Koreans, Japanese and nationals of countries including Thailand, Malaysia, Lebanon, Romania and France have also been press-ganged as language teachers or even spouses.

North Korean defectors have also been kidnapped from countries including China.

“These international enforced disappearances are unique in their intensity, scale and nature,” the report said.

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