U.N. panel on human rights in N. Korea

U.N. panel on human rights in N. Korea

TOKYO, Japan - Australian judge Michael Kirby, head of a U.N. commission investigating human rights violations in North Korea, speaks during a public hearing at the United Nations University in Tokyo on Aug. 29, 2013. At the hearing the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s shared their experiences.

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