By Mia De Graaf PUBLISHED: 14:57 EST, 17 March 2014 | UPDATED: 02:34 EST, 18 March 2014 The crimes of North Korea’s regime are as chilling as those of the Nazis, claims the head of a UN inquiry. In a report based on testimony from hundreds of victims and defectors, investigators said North Korean security chiefs and even Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un should face international justice. The use of systematic torture, starvation, and killings is akin to punishments ordered under Adolf Hitler, the report stated. Scroll down for video Condemnation: Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un should face international justice, the UN report's author said
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Chief author blasted nation's torture 'contending with scourges of Nazism'
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Called for International Criminal Court action to close political prison camps
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Said North Korean security chiefs and Kim Jong Un should face justice
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China, also condemned in report, said findings are 'divorced from reality'
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