A/RES/80/220
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
22 December 2025
Eightieth session
Agenda item 71 (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 2025
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/80/545, para. 5)]
80/220.
Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming that all States have an obligation to respect, protect and fulfil 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 79/181 of 17 December 2024 and Council resolution 58/17 of 3 April
2025, 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 and abuses in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,
Reiterating 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 reiterating also its grave concern at the detailed findings
contained therein and the fact that the majority of the 19 recommendations made by
the commission of inquiry to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea have not
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Eightieth Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/80/53),
chap. V, sect. A.
2
A/HRC/25/63.
25-20980 (E)
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