On February 17, 2014, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report of the commission of inquiry on human rights and a report of the detailed findings of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. According to the press release, the report of the detailed findings of the commission of the inquiry on human rights finds that “a wide array of crimes against humanity, arising from ‘policies established at the highest level of State,’ have been committed and continue to take place in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.” The report also highlights that “the gravity, scale, and nature of these violations reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.”