Michael Kirby

TOKYO, Japan - Michael Kirby, a retired Australian judge who heads a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations in North Korea, speaks before a group of Japanese lawmakers in Tokyo on Aug. 28, 2013. Kirby and two other members of the commission are in Japan for briefings on the unresolved cases of Japanese nationals abducted by Pyongyang in the 1970s and 1980s.

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