By Mark Stone, China Correspondent
The United Nations Security Council has held its first ever meeting to discuss "unspeakable atrocities" and "grave human rights violations" allegedly being carried out in North Korea.
The 15-member council, which includes the UK, the US, China and Russia, discussed whether North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un should be referred to the International Criminal Court for "crimes against humanity" after objections from China were overcome.
Australian Ambassador to the UN Gary Quinlan described the move as "an historic step".
"The DPRK (North Korea) is in effect a totalitarian state which uses violence and repression against its own citizens to maintain itself and its threatening military apparatus in power."
US Ambassador Samantha Power said: "The human rights violations in North Korea are among the worst in the world. They are widespread. They are systematic."
She added: "Given the threat they pose to peace and security, they have been going on outside the scrutiny of the UN Security Council for far too long."
But North Korea rejected the council's decision and said it would decide how to respond.
The meeting was called following an unprecedented UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) report, published in February, catalogued a list of crimes which it said were "widespread and systematic" and "unparalleled in the modern world".
The COI, chaired by retired Australian judge Michael Kirby, sat through witnesses' testimony from scores of North Korean defectors who described their lives inside the country.
The report lists murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortion, sexual violence, forcible transfers and forced disappearances.
Mr Kirby said there were "many parallels" between the evidence he heard and crimes committed by the Nazis in World War Two. He said the international community could not claim, as it did with the Nazis, that they were unaware of the crimes.
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