A/RES/74/166
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
27 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 70 (c)
Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights
situations and reports of special rapporteurs and
representatives
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 18 December 2019
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/74/399/Add.3)]
74/166.
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all States have an obligation to promote and protect human
rights and fundamental freedoms and to fulfil the obligations that they have
undertaken under the various international instruments,
Recalling all previous resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the
Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Council on the situation of
human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including Assembly
resolution 73/180 of 17 December 2018 and Council resolution 40/20 of 22 March
2019, 1 and mindful of the need for the international community to strengthen its
coordinated efforts aimed at achieving the implementation of those resolutions ,
Deeply concerned at the grave human rights situation, the pervasive culture of
impunity and the lack of accountability for human rights violations in the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea,
Stressing the importance of following up on the recommendations contained in
the report of the commission of inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People ’s
Republic of Korea, 2 and expressing grave concern at the detailed findings contained
therein,
Recalling the responsibility of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to
protect its population from crimes against humanity, and recalling also that the
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19-22298 (E)
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fourth Session, Supplement No. 53
(A/74/53), chap. IV, sect. A.
A/HRC/25/63.
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