Analysts say China holds key on UN North Korea Report
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be charged with human rights abuses
Monday's United Nations report on North Korea's crimes against humanity is not for the faint of heart. It contains gruesome details of systematic extermination, torture, rape, forced abortions and starvation.
Although it was a "polite letter", in the words of the Telegraph's Colin Freeman, the report constitutes a clarion call to action, according to many analysts. It will also amount to little, they say, unless China, one of North Korea's few allies, gives its consent.