North Korea has been in the news again sporadically in recent months for a variety of reasons — speculation over Kim Jong Un’s health and weight loss, reports of starvation, COVID-19 and, most recently, a warning from the regime against South Korean cultural influences.

But earlier this week, a new report was published that reminds us of the most serious issue of all besides the regime’s nuclear program: its atrocious human rights record.

Seven years ago, a commission of Inquiry established by the United Nations and brilliantly chaired by Australian judge Michael Kirby concluded that Kim’s regime is committing crimes against humanity, the “gravity, scale and nature” of which “reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.”