S. Korea to Start Full-Fledged Probe into N.K. Human Rights

South Korea plans to launch a full-fledged investigation into North Korea's human rights abuses starting next week by holding one-on-one interviews with incoming defectors, a government official said Thursday.

    A new agency tasked with documenting North Korea's human rights plans to conduct interviews with all North Korean defectors who will enter two resettlement education facilities in January, from Monday until Jan. 16, according to the official.

    Seoul launched the Center for North Korean Human Rights Records in late September to investigate and collect data on Pyongyang's human rights violations in accordance with a new law aimed at improving Pyongyang's dismal treatment of its people, according to South Korea's News Agency (Yonhap).

Source: QNA