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(e) To ensure that everyone within the territory of the Democratic People ’s
Republic of Korea enjoys the right to liberty of movement and is free to leave the
country, including for the purpose of seeking asylum outside the Democratic Pe ople’s
Republic of Korea, without interference by the authorities of the Democratic People ’s
Republic of Korea;
(f) To ensure that citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea who
are expelled or returned to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are able to
return in safety and dignity, are treated humanely and are not subjected to any kind
of punishment, and to provide information on their status and treatment;
(g) To provide citizens of other countries detained in the Democratic People ’s
Republic of Korea with protections, including freedom of communication with, and
access to, consular officers in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Consular
Relations, 24 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 her Office, 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 universal
periodic review and to consider positively those recommendations which are still
under consideration, and to submit a report to the Human Rights Council for
consideration during the third review 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 to humanitarian aid, as well as
to critical data, and take measures to allow humanitarian agencies to secur e the
impartial delivery of such aid to all parts of the country, including detention facilities,
on the basis of need in accordance with humanitarian principles, as it pledged to do,
to ensure access to adequate food 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
ensure 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; 13
(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
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