United Nations
A/RES/71/202
General Assembly
Distr.: General
26 January 2017
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 68 (c)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/484/Add.3)]
71/202. 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 70/172 of 17 December 2015 and Council resolution 31/18 of 23 March
2016, 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,
Welcoming the decision of the Security Council to add the situation in the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the list of issues of which the Council is
seized and the holding of an open meeting of the Council on 10 December 2015,
subsequent to the one held in 2014, during which the situation of human rights in
the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was discussed,
Recalling the responsibility of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to
protect its population from crimes against humanity, and recalling also that the
commission of inquiry urged the leadership of the Democratic People’s Republic of
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-first Session, Supplement No. 53 (A/71/53),
chap. IV, sect. A.
2
A/HRC/25/63.
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