The UN’s special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea said that efforts to fundamentally improve the regime’s human rights environment may not be possible under its current leadership’s personality cult.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Marzuki Darusman said that, while not advocating an invasion, a drastic change might nonetheless be necessary, particularly to help those trapped in the North’s political prison camps.

“It would be, I think, the first order of the day to get these 80,000 to 100,000 (political prisoners) immediately released and these camps disbanded,” Darusman told AP. “But that can only happen if this