WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States supports U.N. Security Council discussion of allegations North Korea committed crimes against humanity, a senior official said Friday. But he questioned whether the council had time to take up the issue.

A U.N. commission of inquiry issued a report last month that detailed systematic executions, torture, rape and mass starvation by North Korea’s authoritarian government. The commission, led by a retired Australian judge, called for the Security Council to consider the report and refer North Korea to the International Criminal Court.