but it is not going to be easy. >> well, kim jong-un was told by u.n. investigators that he personally could be held liable for crimes against humanity. do you think that is just going to heighten his bunker mentality? >> well, we know very little about this young man. he is in his 30's. he is untested. he is obviously having some internal problems with his leadership. he has executed his uncle. he has demoted a bunch of generals he doesn't consider loyal. there could be, if you look at it in a positive way, some internal pressures on kim jong-un to engage the international community to respond to some of these charges, to try to do something about the economy and the human rights situation. but it is such an isolated unpredictable country. they won't react the normal way. this is why engagement with a regime either by special envoys, either by by f-the-box diplomacy, china, which provides their food, fuel and political support, to pressure them to try to fix some of the terrible problems that the u.n. has outlined. >> this report is so detailed and dev

possibly kim jong un, the new leader, sees and undoubtedly he'll read it. perhaps there's going to be some internal force, moderate forces in the military, in the political structure that say "we are not getting assistance to our starving people, to our economy, unless there's changes. that's a limited but possible course that might change things. i wouldn't count on it, but right now i think the best answer is some kind of engagement with kim jong un on this report, on the nuclear weapons reduction, on engaging with south korea, rekindling the 6-party talks towards reducing tensions in the peninsula. someone has to engage this guy, not dennis rodman, or somebody that isn't going to find ways to moderate what is happening in north korea, which basically is not good but we don't know anything about the new young leader and which direction he wants to go. on the one hand he's having human rights thoughts on re-unification of families with south korea. maybe that's a good sign. when he reads the report, maybe he'll say, "i'm ready to talk, ready to dialogue."

. >> kim jong un may be hello, i'm antonio mora. diplomat. them. >> it comes as the country enters its sixth day of process. >> a set back for process in u.s. >> our man jimmy fallon taking over. over. >> the sixth host in six years. >> it will be a big night. >> we begin with a report on unspeakable crimes perpetrated in north korea, and an unprecedented warning from the united nations to north korea's leaders. u.n. investigators said monday that supreme leader kim jong un and his security forces could face an international trial for ordering systematic widespread and gross human rights violations. they are detailed in a 272-paged report. michael kirby, and shared the u.n. commission of inquiry compared north korea's crimes to that of the nazises in world war ii. michael kirby had this challenge for his u.n. colleagues. >> too many times there are reports in no action. well, this is a time for action. we can't say we didn't know. we now all do know, anyone who report. >> for more, i'm pleased to be joined from santa fe by governor bill richa

. >> reporter: not long after this north korean leader kim jong un said in his new year's speech that his country must be prepared to improve relations with the south. he said it should show a flexible policy and a conciliatory attitude. in the middle of last month north korean state media announced that the north and south should stop publicly badmouthing each other. >> reporter: the delegates from the north and south may have failed to reach a break through at the pan munn john meeting but agreed to keep talking. >> earlier we talked to an experts in our seoul studio. kim kuhn chick is a professor at kun i don't remember university and specializes in north korean politics and enter korean relations. >> translator: the kim jong-un regime established certain national development goals in 2013. these suggest the north believes its security lies in its nuclear program. the north's economic strategies focus on using its economic zone and implementing reform policies. now in 2014 kim is trying to improve foreign relations. to achieve this the north koreans are regularly asking the south t

we are talking about kim jong-un, the young leader of north korea. and this report from the u.n. is an attempt to wake up the world so no one will ever say as they did after world war ii, for instance, that they didn't realize how bad it was until it was too late. this evidence is based on interviews from defectors and survivors. the u.n. said today north korea, quote, has no parallel in the contemporary world. it is where we begin our broadcast tonight with our chief foreign affairs correspondent, andrea mitchell. >> reporter: north korea kim jong-un at his father's grave, a birthday tribute. even as the u.n. accuses the kim regime of vast horrors going back decades, deaths, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, sexual violence and forced abortions. >> there will be no excusing a failure of action because we didn't know. we do know. >> reporter: the survivors of the prison kept pictures to illustrate the torture and public execution of hundreds of thousands. for the u.n. and for human rights watch, an advocacy group. this man, a prisoner at camp 15 said a fellow pris

official compares kim jong-un to a modern day hitler. andrea mitchell has the details. >> reporter: kim jong-un with a birthday tribute sunday. even as the u.n. accuses the die nasty of nazi look atrocities. extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, rape, sexual violence and forced abortions. >> there will be no excusing failure of action because we didn't know. we do know. >> reporter: survivors of the prison sketched pictures to i also straight starvation, torture and public execution of hundreds of thousands. for the u.n. and for human rights watch -- this prisoner at camp 15 said a fellow prisoner tried to escape, was dragged back to the camp behind a truck. then executed for all to see. this woman imprisoned for 28 years drew pictures after she got out. she said guards would spit the in their mouths. if they gagged, they would be beaten. former guards told human rights watch many people lost their hipds. children starved. families foraged for snakes or nice to feed their children. and the u.n. report says when women prisoners gave

ambassador, i love the fact that people said how can you hang out with somebody like kim jong-un? horrible person. they are goingn? he is a horrible person. >> the citizens of north korea are smarter than kim jong-un. but i think we established that there is probably a vacancy in our ambassadorship to argentina. >> jesse, have you been thrown out of hotels. >> a lot of times. >> do you think this is helpful for america? >> i don't think it is. he is the only american who has been there. what he has done is contributed to the north korean stereo type of >> do you think this is a good idea? >> maybe you have to do some tests. >> is this dangerous? >> it isangerous and i am afraid it will catch all over canada. the last thing rob ford needs is another reason to love vending machines. >> that's a crack joke. >> that was great. >> joanne -- >> i am not answering. >> i am going to do this once a week. >> i'm sorry. >> look at this this way i am fine with your last name and i screw up the easy part. >> what does it say about you? >> i have problems. >> at least you don't have crack probl

north korea's leader kim jong-un recently executed his uncle, once the second most powerful man in the country, and a number of other relatives. kim, age 31, took over his late four two years ago. the chairman the commission of inquiry has written a letter to him in it he recommends the u.n. refer the situation in the democratic people's republic of korea, the country's official name, to the international criminal court to render all those, including possibly yourself, who may be responsible for crimes against humanity. >> no one will be able to say in the future only if we knew about north korea. like they said after the second world war, if only we had known. well, we now know, and it will nobody our report. this is a wake up signal to the world and hopefully to the leaders of north korea. >> they may want to see figures in north korea face international justice, but it does not have the power to make that happen. this hard-hitting report will hit the human rights council in a month's time and they'll pass it to the u.n. general assembly, but neither of those entities have the power,

i love the fact that people were saying, how can you hang out with somebody like kim jong-un? erson. but they're going, how can you hang out with dennis rodman? he's is a horrible person. >> it shows the citizens of north korea are smarter than kim jong-un, that's one take. but i think we've established tonight there's probably a vacancy in our ambassadorship to argentina for dennis rodman. >> jesse, you've been thrown out of hotels before. >> many times. >> not entire countries. do you think this is helpful for america? >> no, i don't think it is. i think what's upsetting is he's like the only american who's ever been there and they seem to have a vacuum of information. what he has done is contributed to the north korean stereotype of americans. know what i mean? now they're going to be, all americans, 7 foot tall alcoholic transvestites. >> bill clinton has been there too. >> there you go. >> i just watch your joke, getting sidetracked. you were driving down the joke highway and a truck rode out in front of you, drove you off the road. >> i hope that happens to your stupid bu

in december 2011 kim jong un becomes the supreme leader after the death of his father, november 2012 kenneth bae is arrested and charged with trying to bring down the government. he's sentenced to 15 years hard labour. 2013 north korea reports a third nuclear test. april of that year, a joint industrial park is closed by the north, i mid mounting interpretations from the south, although it reopens six months later. >> he ex-cutes his uncle jang song-thaek. there's talks of rising instability. both of his regimes tightened grip on power. north and south korea made tentative agreements to hold reunions for families. the last family reunion. harry fawcett sent an update from seoul. >> preparations for next week's family reunion in which families separated for more than 60 years will be able to see one another again. they're under way thanks to agreements at high-level talks, committing both sides to going ahead as planned, taking place between the 20th and 25th of february. they had been under threat. north korea was objecting to the reunions taking place at the same time as annual u.n.

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panel said kim jong-un and north korean leadership could face international justice for atrocities noweing compared to those committed under hitler. andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: north korea kim jong-un at a birthday tribute. a vast network of prison chasms, horrors going back decades. extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, sexual violence, and forced abortions. >> there will be no excusing a failure of action because we didn't know. we do know. >> reporter: survivors sketched pictures to illustrator chur and public execution of hundreds of thousands. this man a police per at camp 15 said a fellow prisoner trying to escape was dragged back to the camp behind a truck, then executed for all to see. this woman imprisoned for 28 years drew pictures after she got out. she said guards would spit in their mouths. if they gagged, they would be beaten. former guards told human rights watch many people lost their minds. children starved. families foraged for snakes or nice to feed their children. and the u.n. report says when women prisoners gave birth, most of

and now, to kim jong-un is put on notice for crimes against hue man its in his country. tonight we have an unprecedented investigation by the united nations, comparing it to a hell h. even the tiniest koreans are not safe. bob woodruff travelled to korea five times and has our story. >> reporter: allegiance to the regime begins here, childhood, according to today's u.n. report. >> we saw it firsthand in their crisp uniforms, singing a song of praise to regime's brutal leader, kim jong-un. today, the u.n. panel saying he and his government is responsible for crimes against humanity. >> we've unanimously come to the conclusion there's abundant evidence for great wrongs of this kind. >> reporter: the scathing report highlights some of the worst abuses the world has ever seen. it says the regime seeks to dominate every aspect of its citizens' lives and terrorizes them from within, uses food as an important means to enforce political loyalty, and probably the most searing describes horror inside the regime's infamous prison camps, saying they are rampant with torture, rape, f

allegations of atrocities and brutality against people and the effort to hold kim jong-un accountable. >>> after the verdict, the mistrial of the michael dunn murder trial, what it means, to the criminal justice system. i'll talk to reverend jesse jackson. >>> ski season in the west, the tom on california. >>> and true nature of attack dogs. our series tonight continues with surprising new evident from science and technology correspondent jake ward. >> and we begin tonight with a syria peace talks. they've hit a roadblock breaking down over the weekend. and today the blame game continues. the u.s. accusing syrian president bashar al-assad, and the diplomatic wrestling continues, so is the suffering. richelle carey is here with that. richelle,. >> it all comes down to people. syrian, millions are refugees, crossing borders. pictures shows us the human struggle playing out in the desert. these are the images we see from syria of the shelling, the suffering. they only tell part of the story. these people tell the other. a steady stream of refugees free the war torn country, by the hundre

. >>> and united nations says north korean leader kim jong-un could be held accounteddable for crime -- accountable for crimes against his own people. >>> from across the bay to around the world, the stories that misser unstacks station -- matter on kpix 5 news this morning. and good morning everyone, it is 6:00. i'm frank mallicoat. >> good morning to you, i'm juliette goodrich. michelle has the day off. it is 6:00 as we said and breaking news, in alameda county where sheriff's deputies were involved in a fatal shooting. kpix 5's cate caugurian has the latest, she joins us live from san lorenzo. >> reporter: investigators are inside the home as we speak and you can take a look. the alameda county sheriff's crime lab is now parked out in front. we know investigators are gathering new evidence and conducting interviews with everyone involved. here's what happened. we know it started just around 10:00 last night. alameda county sheriff's office says it originally came in as a medical call. firefighters and paramedics arrived to this home and when they got her, they said -- here. they s

found on efforts to hold leader kim jong-un accountable. >> reporter: the united nations is warning northorean leader kim jong-un he could face charges for orchestrating widespread crimes against civilians. >> it's a unanimous report. >> reporter: the warning follows a year long investigation by a u. n. panel. chairman kirby said the findings should shock the conscience of humanity. >> it's a report which speaks of the greet wrongs that have been done to the people of north korea. >> reporter: it details rape, starvation and torture of civilians. >> a mother is forced to drown her baby. the forced executions. the forced abortions. the starvation on a very mass scale. so it's it details chapter and verse about what's going on. i mean it's just unbelievable. >> reporter: the panel urges kim to stop the crimes and call for international prosecution. >> i don't think that the north koreans have demonstrated any type of commitment to adhere to international law. >> reporter: u.s. officials hope the report will pressure north korea to release japanese, south koreans and others still being held

and it says that kim jong un might be held accountable for the crimes. the u.s. denies allegations that venezuela's president is trying to overthrow his government. they came to the opposition leader's defense. >> . >> in south africa, 22 miners are being charged with illegal mining. the miners say that some are still underground but refuse to leave for fear of being arrested spa. >> in california, a historic drought, causing problems for key resorts. those are the headlines. i'm thomas dreyden and consider this is up next. >> united nations report is levelling disturbing allegations against the north koreans. >> kim jong un may be hello, i'm antonio mora.

panel said kim jong-un and leadership could face international justice for atrocities which are now comparedadolf hitler. andrea, here is your report on this. >> reporter: north korea's kim jong-un at his father's mausoleum. a birthday tribute on sunday and accuse the kim dynasty of atrocities and a vast network of prison camps and horrors going back decades and extermination and murder and slavery and forced abortions. >> there will be no excusing a failure of action because we didn't know. we do know. >> reporter: survivors of the prison sketch pictures to illustrate starvation and torture of tuhundreds of thousands. this prisoner at camp 15 said a fellow prison trying to escape was dragged back to the camp behind a truck. then executed for all to see. kim in prison for 28 years drew pictures after she got out. she said guards would spit in their mouth if they gagged, they would be beaten. former guards told human rights watch, many people lost their mind. children starved. families hunted for snake and mice to feed their children. most often guards force the mother or third person to kill

kim jong-il, liked to do. he spend $1 million a year to bring in cognac. kim jong-unin mercedes benz, luxury vehicles, piano, recording equipment. he is spending more than his father did. that's really saying something. >> so, phil, can anything really be done without china's help? >> well, there has been various different accountability mechanisms done without china's help. the problem here is that the u.n. security council would have to refer north korea to the international criminal court, because north korea has not signed the rome statute that established the court. we expect that there is going to be a long, prolonged campaign here to try to press for china and russia and other past supporters of the north korean government to allow for this process to go forward. the key issue here is that no one can say anymore that they didn't know. this is a report that is damming. it sets out that there have been severe, pervasive, and systematic violations amounting to crimes against humanity by the north korean government. every international forum that talks about north

and i can't imagine any other nonkinetic tool of pressure to have greater effect on kim jong-un thanthe prospect of criminal prosecution based on the notion that dprk shouldn't even exist. what you think about that as something to try to bring something new in terms of pressure, and to shake up the stakes more? because, frankly, what is he going to do in response to that? there's not much he can do, but he will learn very quickly that he's not getting anywhere with the game he's been playing, and his predecessors have been playing. >> interesting question. let me start by saying, of course, that sometimes in the course of our focus on the denuclearization issue, and this is somewhat, because we do have two special come with a special envoy, bob king who is dedicated to human rights issue, and a special representative, with glenn davies look at the larger, broader north korea policy. at times, you know, people forget as we talk about uranium enrichment, plutonium and warheads and missiles, proliferation, of the plight of the people of north korea. let me say first of all, at his absol

includepotentially hundreds of government officials and supreme leader kim jong-un. any attempt will likely be blocked by china, a un security council member and staunch ally of pyongyang. reporter is in the south korean capital, seoul. while the findings are shocking, they come as no big surprise. nothing new in this report that people who have been watching north korean human rights abuses for the past 10 or 20 years would not know already. gulags. are sent to the there are firing squads. a very messy form of execution. starvation, forced abortions. basically, the whole gamut of conducted bying the guards in the labor camps in north korea. evidence suggests these allegations are very credible. we cannot prove that. we cannot go inside these caps. there is no oversight from third parties. experts from the holocaust museum have interviewed north korean defectors and believe that what they say is very credible, given their experience of other forms of human rights abuses and genocide. >> matteo renzi has been nominated. the mayor of florence has aftered widespread refo

kim jong-un had executed his uncle. kim, age 31, took over for his late father just two years ago, but the chairman has written a letter to him. it is his commission will recommend the u.n. refer the situation in the democratic people's republic of korea, the country's official name, to the international court to punish all those, maybe yourself, for crimes against humanity. >> nobody will be able to say in the future, if only we had known korea. now everyone will know, and it will be available in our report, and it is a wake up signal to the world and hopefully to the leaders in north korea. >> the commission of inquiry senior figures in north korea face international justice, but it does not have the power to make that happen. >> this hard-hitting report presented to the human rights council in about a month's time and they'll pass it to the u.n. assembly. only the security council can do that. and that's where north korea's long-term ally china has a veto. an international court case seems a distant prospect, but thi

look at the events of the past two years, within the larger arc of where things were going when kim jong-un inherited the challenge, is no inconsistencies or anomalies that would cause us to think that we are somehow not sufficiently aware of the direction the regime is headed with its goals and intentions. now, that said -- this is why i spoke about the opportunities that the agreement provides because the core of our policy has been one of sharpening choices for the dprk to make clear that when the dprk is ready to commit to authentic and credible negotiations that have a serious possibility of leading to concrete denuclearization steps, the other five parties, to include the united states, are prepared to live up to their obligationness the september 19th statement, and fundamentally transformed future is available for the dprk if it makes the right choice. also to be diligent and committed to sanctions and other actions we need to take in our defense and that of our allies, to make sure that north korea knows its program cannot continue to grow unabated; that there's a diplomatic and ec

that is according to the findings in a sickening new report on human rights abuses under kim jong-un ea. wait until you hear what lil' kim has been doing with his money while his citizens die of starvation. block are. >> an auditorium roof collapses trapping students in the rubble in south korea. at least eight students reported dead and more than a dozen others hurt. heavy snow may have caused the roof to give in. the students were attending orientation. >> family in mississippi is welcoming not one but four baby girls. the mom says she went to the hospital at the university of mississippi medical center, expecting to give birth to triplets but the fourth one popped out. identical quadruplets. everybody is doing well. top of the news is next. lobsterfest is the king of all promotions. [ male announcer ] don't miss red lobster's lobsterfest! the year's largestelection of lobst entrees like loter lover's dream or new dueling lobster tail withne crab-stuffed tail and one topped with shrimp. hurry in and sea food fferently. t! withne crab-stuffed tail and one topped with shrimp. [bell ri

i can't imagine any other non kinetic full of pressure to have greater effect on kim jong un than the prospect of criminal prosecution. based on the notion that dprk shouldn't even exist. what about bringing something new in to pressure to shake up the stakes more. what is he going to do in response to that. there's not much he can do but he will learn very quickly that he is not getting anywhere with the game he has been playing and his predecessors have been playing. >> interesting question. sometimes in the course of the focus of the denuclearization issue and this is somewhat because we do have two -- we have a special envoy dedicated to the cumin rights issue, a special representative with glenn davies who looks at the larger, broader north korean policy. at times people forget as we talk about uranium enrichment and plutonium and warheads and missiles and proliferation of the plight of the people of north korea. first of all that is absolutely not the case in the white house as we look at this issue holistically. we continue to be concerned about the human rights issue at dprk.

. >> and terri, let's assume that kim jong-un or some of his employees are watching right now.you want to say to them? >> we plead for mercy. we understand that under deep laws that kenneth bae has committed a crime. he has made an apology. our family has as well. he's served 15 months of his sentence. he's currently back in the labor camp. he has health problems and we just plead with you to let him go and come back to his family and grant him amnesty. >> jake, he has repented and has been contrite. now we hope for forgiveness and that be would the key. and it's not a political mission. we've talked to the a ambassador here but it's trying to slide through that door where there may be some possibility of a humanitarian plea. please, let kenneth bae come home. it could be an opportunity to break the cycle of fear. >> having dealt with leaders of kim jong-un before when you've tried to release americans held in situations like this, what works? what message works? >> well, direct appeal, number one. and an attempt to appreciate the anxiety and what they want. often they want rec

you look at the events of the past two ofrs, within the larger arc where things were going when kim jong-un inherited this challenge know the inconsistencies and anomalies that would cause us to think somehow not sufficiently aware of the direction the regime is headed with its goals and intentions. that said, and this is why spoke divided, opportunities because the core of our policy has been one of sharpening choices for this the dprk, to ise clear that when the dprk ready to commit to authentic and credible negotiations that have a series possibility of meeting clearizationdenu steps, the other five parties are ready to lead up to their -- the fundamental choice is to the dprk to make the right choice and to be intelligent and committed to sanctions and other actions that we need to take an hour defense and that of our allies to make sure that north korea knows its program cannot continue to grow unabated, that there is a dramatic and economic price to be made for the policy choices and makes and therefore to understand that downside sharpening the choices strategy. regardless of the dir

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human rights panel warned north korean leader kim jong un he could be held accountable for crimes againstivilians. those crimes range from systemic excuses of his people to torture, rape and mass starvation. the report compared him to the worst nazi atrocities. at the winter olympics today the weathers with a big story again. with temperatures in the 50s it got so foggy in the mountains above sochi, organizers had to postpone two events until tomorrow. in the medal's race the u.s. is tied with russia in first place with 18. the netherlands has 17. >> there are 98 medal events, 98 chances to win gold. for the host country, none is more important than men's hockey. mark phillips discovered old feelings diehard. >> it's the old soviet flag old days on the music video, the russian hockey team released for these games. stirring music and scenes from great victories of long ago. with russia's ven hockey heroes singing the chorus. but the new days haven't been like the old days. the new days have been a bit rough. having lost to the u.s. on saturday -- >> he scores! >> the russians only squeaked

north korea's leader, kim jong-un recently executed his uncle, once the second most powerful than in the country and several others. he took over after his father just two years ago. the chairman has written a letter to him, in it it says it will refer this to the international criminal court to render all those, including possibly yourself may be responsible for crimes against humanity. >> no one will be able to say in the future, if only we'd known about north korea. as they said after the second world war. if only we'd known. well now everyone will know. and it will be available in our report. and it is a wakeup signal to the world and hopefully to the leaders in north korea. >> the commission of inquiry may want to see senior figures in north crea, face international -- korea face international justice but does not have the power to make that happen. this hard-hitting report will be presented to the u.n. human rights council in about a month's time and they will then pass it to the u.n. general assembly. but neither of those parties have the power to refer to the international cr

the tensions then heightened north'snty around the new young leader, kim jong un, exercisesic over the this year has been relatively mild so far but the drills are aprilled to last until and many here see them as the real test of whether ties koreas are two warming. scientists say they've observed a record breaking impact on the moon. spanish astronomers spotted a with a mass of half a ton clashing into the surface last september. amazing. in south sudan, civilians are of their lives from the town of bore. hundreds of people were killed ethnic violence there and a u.n. report points fingers at both government rebels for committing human rights abuses. our correspondent has gone there to see the impact. his report contains scenes that you may find disturbing. the details of what happened, what and whend may be disputed but the consequences are self-evident. a hurricane ripped through the town, except this man-madeon is entirely we were escorted by government who now control bore. it has changed hands four times the recent fighting with rebel forces. beentime there have casualties.civili

north korea's leader kim jong-un recently executed his uncle, once the second most powerful man in the country, and a number of relstive. kim age 31 took over for his late father just two years ago. but the chairman of the commission of inquiry has written a letter to him. in it he said his commission will recommend the u.n. refer the situation in the democrati c people's republic of korea, the country's official name, to the international criminal court to render all those and possibly yourself who may be responsible for crimes against humanity. >> no one will be able to say in the future if only we had known about north korea. as they said after the second warworld war, if only we had kn. now every will know, and it will be available in our report, and it is a wake up signal to the world and hopefully to the leaders in north korea. >> the commission of inquiry may want to see senior figures in north korea face international justice, but it does not have the power to make that happen. >> this heard-hitting report will be presented to the you u.n. human rights council in a month's time

. >> now to calls that north korea for leadership and possibly kim jong-un himself should face charges comparable to not see era atrocities -- nazi-era atrocities. >> this came out of a year long of testimony from defectors at hearings in south korea, japan, britain, and the united states. >> the report details those responsible for the worst crimes. north korea categorically denies the allegations. >> the report says that the north korean leadership has committed unspeakable atrocities against its own people. the report, released on monday, details for camps around the country where they say prisoners suffered in human treatment at the hands of its regime. michael kirby told reporters in geneva that the extent of the evidence was overwhelming. >> look at the paragraph in the reports. it indicates the types of people and the types of human rights abuses are so many and the institutions have so many officers that the potential would be running into hundreds, i would think. >> there are only satellite images of the prisoner camps, such as this one, about 100 kilometers from pyongyang. fo

committee warned north korean leader kim jong un today that he could face prosecution for crimes against his own people. after a yearlong investigation, the three-man panel found evidence of executions, torture, abduction and mass starvation. the chair of the investigation, michael kirby, says the committee wrote to kim, putting him on notice. >> we indicated that he should be aware of this. he should be aware of the international crime of aiding and abetting, crimes against humanity, even if not himself involved in the actual perpetration of those crimes. and we informed him that he himself may be responsible in any subsequent prosecution that occurs. >> ifill: north korea refused to cooperate with the investigation and said it categorically rejects the findings. the number of troops dismissed from the u.s. army for drugs, alcohol and other misconduct has soared in recent years. the associated press reported today that 11,000 enlisted soldiers were forced out last year, nearly double the figure from 2007. there were 387 officers expelled last year, triple the figure from 2010. the army

the panel's investigation points to kim jong-un, who could personally be blamed for these unspeakable crimes. the u.n. directly warned him he could face international prosecution, to render accountable all those, including possibly yourself, who may be responsible for the crimes against humanity. joining us now is nbc chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, the host of "andrea mitchell reports," which is moving to noon eastern on monday. and steve clemons, contributor and founder of the american strategy foreign policy forum at the new america foundation. welcome to you both. andrea, what are we learning here at a level of higher authority and depth about what's happening in north korea? >> from the people whom we talked to at the u.n. panel, also kenneth roth at the human rights watch, this is the most documented report that we have had. we've known about north korea, but we have never had this amount of testimony from defectors and from former prisoners and their drawings, which have actually matched up some of their drawings of the large expanses of the camps match up

rehab following his return from pyongyang and is currently under vex for the gifts he brought for kim jong un'sthday, which may have violated sanctions and u.s. law. give me a break. speaking of diplomacy, new york mayor bill de blasio made up with al roker today on the "today" show, burying the hatch after a very public twitter feud. roker, who was critical of the city keeping schools open during a snowstorm. he was quick to smooth things over in person and de blasio came hat in hand, literally, hat in hand. take a look. >> we'll get this out of the way. we had a little chat about school closings and snow. and we both want the best for the school kids. >> that's right. that's right. >> and our city. >> i want you to know we have a little snow coming up the next few days. >> oh, you've been peeks. >> so i would like you to join us. this is the sanitation department official hat. and if you would like to come out and join us for snow clearance, this could be a new part of your career. >> my dad was a bus driver. new york's strongest. >> they've had everything to deal with this winter, but they'v

investigators have called for north koreans security chiefs and possibly even the supreme leader kim jong un to face and some actual justice for ordering system of the torture starvation and killings. according to investigators. pyongyang has used food as a means of control over the population and deliberate starvation or to punish political and ordinary prison as pullout the international community does the international community will know they will be no excusing friday of action because we didn't know we do that. north korea says it cost a courtly and totally rejects the accusations insisting that takes the material facts by hostile forces backed by the united states the european union times to come. so is the same ethiopian airlines carried on to hijack the plane he was throwing to set in order to claim asylum in switzerland the group ride that took control of the plane flying from these out of a two room looking to call the door while the current was using the toilet. when someone saw mak e g sending them rather than surrender to swing so far it seems to be done. he lapsed into geneva

when kim jong-un had his uncle executed essentially, he was a very close -- the person in the regimehat the chinese had the closest ties to. they saw him as someone they could deal with more effectively. they're hoping that he would encourage more chinese economic reforms in north korea and so now that he's out of the picture, they feel potentially much less influence over the regime. >> let's talk about a couple of months ago we heard the saber rattling from china and japan about these disputed islands. is that getting any better? >> still very much a hot issue. there are engagements almost on a daily basis between japanese ships, chinese aircraft and the risk is not that the chinese are going to invade the islands or anything like that, but the risk is some sort of accident, miscalculation, one of these pilots goes a little too far. and you can get sort of the incident that quickly spins out of control. >> all right. and finally, it looks like a big picture. where is the u.s. status in asia? the president, president obama is scheduled to go visit a few asian countries in april. >>

kim jong un was at the ceremony but didn't exactly make speech the birthday of his father is known as of the shining star. >>> sunday marks 100 days since typhoon haiyan slammed in to the philippines since then thousands of children left orphaned by the deadly score. a report on the most vulnerable survivors. >> reporter: this ring has become a source of comfort for 14-year-old haiyan survivors. his all he has left of his mother. he lost both his parents and his siblings during the typhoon. >> translator: i just pray that hopefully they are happy, he says. and that they are watching over me. >> reporter: neko is grateful he found relatives to take him in. many others like him haven't. three months after typhoon haiyan and many children are still living in evacuation centers like this one, almost 6 million children have been eveninged by the storm and humanitarian groups have classified more than 500,000 of them as highly vulnerable. >> meaning that they've got no guardians left or come from the most severely affected areas where capacity for recovery is poorest. officials fear such ch