Yad Vashem called on the United Nations to investigate reports that North Korea is using gas chambers to kill political dissidents. Avner Shalev, chairman of the directorate of Israel’s central Holocaust museum, wrote that “the chilling images of the murderers cooly watching their victims’ death agonies is all too reminiscent of Nazi barbarism.”
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