Whereas the leadership of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), including its current heir, Kim Jong Un, has committed grave atrocities against its own people and acts of aggression against its neighbors; Whereas up to 120,000 are estimated to be imprisoned in brutal North Korean gulags, political prison camps known as the kwan-li-so; Whereas the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea concluded in 2014 that Kim Jong Un and DPRK leadership was perpetrating unspeakable atrocities against its own people on a vast scale and committed widespread, systematic, and gross violations that amount to crimes against humanity; Whereas the Chair of the Commission called these atrocities strikingly similar to crimes committed by Nazi Germany in World War II, including execution, enslavement, starvation, rape, and forced abortion, and warned Kim Jong Un of his own personal culpability in a special letter attached to the report; Whereas under Kim Jong Un’s leadership, there are reports of newborn babies in prison being fed to guard dogs, punishment and possible execution of starving prisoners caught digging for edible plants, and forced abortions; Whereas the Commission stated that persons who are forcibly repatriated from China are commonly subjected to torture, arbitrary detention, summary execution, forced abortion, and other forms of sexual violence ; Whereas the Commission further observed that many [North Korean] suspects die … as a result of torture, deliberate starvation, or illnesses developed or aggravated by the terrible living conditions ; Whereas according to the Commission, Kim Jong Un continues allocating a significant amount of the state’s resources for the purchase and importation of luxury goods and diverting state funds to North Korea’s nuclear and military programs, while a majority of North Korea’s population suffers; Whereas according to the Commission, crimes against humanity in North Korea have been committed pursuant to policies at the highest level of the state