<sod >they are essential components of a political system that has moved far from the ideals on which it claims to be founded,â the report says, noting that the population lives in a system of fear and surveillance, where denouncing and turning in alleged dissidents is encouraged.< eod>< sod > they are essential components of a political system that has moved far from the ideals on which it claims to be founded," the report says, noting that the population lives in a system of fear and surveillance, where denouncing and turning in alleged dissidents is encouraged. Pyongyang over five decades has created a "vast political and security apparatus that strategically uses surveillance, coercion, fear and punishment to preclude the expression of any dissent," it adds. Separately, the panel also admonished China that it may be "aiding and abetting crimes against humanity" by sending defectors back to North Korea.< eod>