We doubt that North Korea's Kim Jong-Un cares if the United Nations considers him an international criminal and compares him to Hitler.
We suspect few citizens of North Korea will even learn of the UN's report detailing his regime's unimaginable crimes against his own people.
But the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights in North Korea ensures that the rest of the world can no longer pretend that the reports coming out of North Korea are isolated incidents.
As the chair of the commission, Michael Kirby, detailed the atrocities, he also made it clear that there is no way that anyone can feign ignorance of the situation.
Other nations cannot now say, as they did with the Nazis, that they did not know the extent of the crimes.
Kirby said, "Now the international community does know. There will be no excusing a failure of action because we didn't know. It's too long now. The suffering and the tears of the people of North Korea demand action."
The year-long UN inquiry found systematic torture, starvation, killing of children, and mass murders were an intrinsic part of the country's political, military and civic system.
The report states: "These are not mere excesses of the state: they are essential components of a political system that has moved far from the ideals on which it claims to be founded. The gravity, scale and nature of these violations reveal a state that does not have any parallel in the contemporary world."
The question now is: What will the UN do?
Jong-Un has been notified that he and others in his regime can be tried in the International Criminal Court in The Hague for crimes against humanity.
But who will arrest him?
And if no one can, how can we sleep at night knowing that another Hitler is creating such pain and sorrow on such a vast and inhuman scale in our lifetime?
