The UN and human rights advocates maintained that the report remained solid, even without Shin's account as the report drew from interviews with hundreds of other defectors and experts on human rights in North Korea.
联合国和人权倡导者认为报告依然是可信的，即使没有申东赫的证言，也有来自于与其他数百名脱北者和来自北韩人权专家的采访。