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Report of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (A/HRC/25/63)

United Nations Human Rights Council, Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK · United Nations (Geneva) · 2014

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Type: Report
Author: United Nations Human Rights Council, Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK
Accessed: 2026-09-01
Reliability notes: Dated 7 February 2014. Detailed findings in A/HRC/25/CRP.1. Key paragraphs: 32–33 (songbun), 53 (food), 61 (80,000–120,000 political prisoners), 75–76 (crimes against humanity).

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EstablishedThe UN Commission of Inquiry found in 2014 that crimes against humanity had been committed in North Korea pursuant to policies set at the highest level of the state, and estimated 80,000 to 120,000 political prisoners in four large camps.EstablishedNorth Korea's songbun system classifies families into core, wavering and hostile classes, subdivided into about 51 categories, and has shaped residence, work, education, food rations and marriage.EstablishedDecisions, actions and omissions by the North Korean state and its leadership, not only natural disasters, caused the death of at least hundreds of thousands of people in the 1990s famine.