Food Shortages and Human Rights Violations

human rights violations: Violations of the right to food: , according to CBC. Torture and inhuman treatment: A UN report on North Korean human rights violations lists atrocities in nine major areas. The report calls for security chiefs and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un to face international justice for ordering systematic torture, starvation and killings comparable to Nazi-era atrocities. Read passages from each rights violation listed below: "The rights to food, freedom from hunger and to life in the context of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea cannot be reduced to a narrow discussion of food shortages and access to a commodity. The State has used food as a means of control over the population. It has prioritized those whom the authorities believe to be crucial in maintaining the regime over those deemed expendable." North Korea tensions: What's at stake North Korea riles, baffles rest of the world (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.