Jin hye Jo wipes a tear as she testifies during a hearing of the United Nations mandated Commission of Inquiry about the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Washington. Jo wiped the tear while talking about her brother dying in her arms. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Jin hye Jo wipes a tear as she testifies during a hearing of the United Nations mandated Commission of Inquiry about the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Washington. Jo wiped the tear while talking about her brother dying in her arms. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Jin hye Jo pauses while testifying during a hearing of the United Nations mandated Commission of Inquiry about the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Washington. Jo became emotional while talking about the death of her grandmother. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Commission members Sonja Biserko, left, and Michael Kirby, listen during a hearing of the United Nations mandated Commission of Inquiry about the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Her father was tortured in detention in North Korea and died. Her elder sister went searching for food during the great famine of the 1990s, only to be trafficked to China. Her two younger brothers died of starvation: one of them a baby without milk, whose life ebbed away in her arms.
North Korean defector Jin Hye Jo tearfully told her family's story Wednesday to U.N. investigators holding a hearing in Washington. It's the investigators' latest stop in a globe-trotting effort to probe possible crimes against humanity in North Korea.
The U.N. commission, led by Australian judge Michael Kirby, says evidence gathered so far points to systematic and gross human rights violations. It is empowered it seek full accountability, although bringing perpetrators to book remains a distant prospect.
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