Order.
Welcome to the 76th meeting of the Subcommittee on International Human Rights of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development. Today is June 9, 2015, and the meeting is televised.
We have with us today on the subject of human rights in North Korea the Honourable Michael Kirby, who has, among many other accomplishments, been a 13-year veteran of the High Court of Australia, the equivalent of our Supreme Court. In February 2014, colleagues, Mr. Kirby and other commissioners produced the report of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which was, I think, to say the least, scathing and which may have changed the nature of the international debate on human rights in North Korea.
Mr. Kirby, I invite you to begin your presentation. Once you've finished doing your presentation, we'll look at the amount of time remaining and divide that into six equal parts for questions from each of the six participating members of Parliament.
So with that said, I invite you to begin your testimony. Thank you.