Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea A/RES/74/166 access to, consular officers in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, 26 to which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a party, and any other necessary arrangements to confirm their status and to communicate with their families; (h) To extend its full cooperation to the Special Rapporteur, including by granting him full, free and unimpeded access to the Democratic People ’s Republic of Korea, and to other special procedures of the Human Rights Council as well as to other United Nations human rights mechanisms so that a full needs assessment of the human rights situation may be made; (i) To engage in technical cooperation activities in the field of human rights with the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and he r Office, including the field-based structure in the region, as pursued by the High Commissioner in recent years, with a view to improving the situation of human rights in the country; (j) To implement the accepted recommendations stemming from the univer sal periodic reviews and to consider positively those recommendations which are still under consideration from the third review cycle, and to submit a midterm voluntary report to detail progress on the implementation of recommendations accepted from the third cycle; (k) To become a member of the International Labour Organization, to enact legislation and adopt practices to comply with international labour standards and to consider ratifying all the relevant conventions, in particular the core labour conventions of the International Labour Organization; (l) To continue and reinforce its cooperation with United Nations humanitarian agencies; (m) To ensure full, safe and unhindered access of persons in vulnerable situations to humanitarian aid, and take measures to allow humanitarian agencies to survey the needs of persons belonging to vulnerable groups, to obtain critical baseline data and to enable the unhindered and impartial delivery of such humanitarian aid to all parts of the country, on the basis of need in accordance with humanitarian principles, as it pledged to do, to furthermore ensure access to adequate basic services and implement more effective food security and nutrition policies, including through sustainable agriculture, sound food production and distribution measures and the allocation of more funds to the food sector, and to allow adequate monitoring of humanitarian assistance; (n) To further improve cooperation with the United Nations country team members and development agencies so that they can directly contribute to improving the living conditions of the civilian population, including progress towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals; 12 (o) To consider ratifying and acceding to the remaining international human rights treaties, which would enable a dialogue with the human rights treaty bodies, to resume reporting to monitoring bodies on treaties to which it is a party, to participate meaningfully in treaty body reviews, and to give consideration to the concluding observations of such bodies in order to improve the human rights situation in the country; 18. Urges the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to implement the recommendations of the commission of inquiry, the group of independent experts, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights without delay; __________________ 26 10/11 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 596, No. 8638. 19-22298