A/HRC/RES/55/21 actively engage and cooperate with national, regional and international mechanisms, and civil society, victims and survivors, as appropriate, as part of its efforts to identify strategies for accountability, in accordance with international law standards; 14. Also welcomes the steps taken to continue to strengthen the capacity of the Office of the High Commissioner, including its field-based structure in Seoul, to allow the implementation of relevant recommendations made by the group of independent experts on accountability in its report, aimed at strengthening current monitoring and documentation efforts, compiling a central information and evidence repository and having experts in legal accountability assess all information and testimonies, with a view to developing possible strategies to be used in any future accountability process, and encourages cooperation with a wide range of stakeholders in the procurement of evidence that could be used in future criminal proceedings; 15. Decides to this end to further strengthen the capacity of the Office of the High Commissioner, including its field-based structure in Seoul, with further additional resources and expertise for increasing the amount of first-hand information in the repository by expanding the number of interviews, and for the analysis of that information; 16. Requests the High Commissioner to submit a comprehensive report containing an update on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since 2014, when the report of the commission of inquiry was published, and taking stock of the implementation of the commission’s recommendations, to the Human Rights Council at its sixtieth session, to be followed by an enhanced interactive dialogue; 17. Decides to extend the mandate of Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in accordance with Human Rights Council resolution 37/28, for a period of one year; 18. Requests the High Commissioner to continue to explore options for strengthening, institutionalizing and further advancing work on accountability in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the report to be submitted to the Human Rights Council at its fifty-eighth session pursuant to Council resolution 52/28; 19. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to continue to organize a series of consultations and outreach activities with victims, affected communities and other relevant stakeholders with a view to ensuring a victim-centred approach to accountability and to including their views in avenues for accountability; 20. Calls again upon all parties concerned, including United Nations bodies, to consider implementing the recommendations made by the commission of inquiry in its report in order to address the dire situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; 21. Encourages the field-based structure of the Office of the High Commissioner in Seoul to continue its endeavours, welcomes its regular reports to the Human Rights Council, and invites the High Commissioner to provide the Council with regular updates on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; 22. Calls upon all States to undertake to ensure that the field-based structure of the Office of the High Commissioner can function with independence, that it has sufficient resources to fulfil its mandate, that it enjoys full cooperation with relevant States and that it is not subjected to any reprisals or threats; 23. Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to report on its follow-up efforts in the regular annual report of the Secretary-General submitted to the General Assembly on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; 24. Requests the Special Rapporteur to submit regular reports to the Human Rights Council and to the General Assembly on the implementation of the mandate, including on the follow-up efforts made in the implementation of the recommendations of the commission of inquiry; 25. Urges the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, through continuous dialogues, to invite and to cooperate fully with all special procedure mandate 8