Atlantic Council VP and Brent Scowcroft Center Director Barry Pavel is quoted in the USA Today on the effort to bring North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un before the International Criminal Court for human rights violations:

Barry Pavel, vice president of the Atlantic Council and a former defense policy adviser to President Obama and former president George W. Bush, said the U.N. panel’s warning “is not enforceable unless the international community decides to go after” Kim like it did former Serbia president Slobodan Milosevic. Milosevic died in custody while being tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

China has also been engaged in a human rights crackdown within its own borders, however, and does not want to bring attention to itself, Pavel said.

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