This year marks the 10th anniversary of the U.N.’s groundbreaking investigation on North Korean human rights, which found that the scale of abuses in the DPRK “reveal a State that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world.”

Yet a decade after the Commission of Inquiry (COI) report was published, little has changed.

Human Rights Watch just last week described North Korea as “one of the most repressive countries in the world” in a new report, a line that might have been plucked out of any number of human rights investigations over the years.

The U.N. argues that