North Korea resorting to brutal methods to enforce 'racial purity': UN report

The 372 pages UN report on North Korea war crimes has brought to light some of the most unspeakable accounts of torture, including the camp guards' "policy" towards women who returned to North Korea pregnant.

According to the testimony provided by a young woman called Jee Heon, who was sent to a prison camp after being returned from China, the country forced women to abort their babies to prevent them from giving birth to biracial babies with Chinese fathers.

The report described forced, late-term abortions without anesthetic - sometimes using rusty instruments, the use of chemicals to induce labour, beatings, forced labour and poor nutrition, the Guardian reported.

Another witness of the North Korean brutality said that people were being brainwashed from the time they knew how to talk, adding that brainwashing through education happened everywhere- in life, society, even at home.