A/HRC/RES/58/17 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 7 April 2025 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-eighth session 24 February–4 April 2025 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 3 April 2025 Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 58/17. The Human Rights Council, Guided by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenants on Human Rights and other human rights instruments, Recalling all previous resolutions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights, the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly on the situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including Council resolution 55/21 of 4 April 2024 and Assembly resolution 79/181 of 17 December 2024, and urging the implementation of those resolutions, Bearing in mind paragraph 3 of General Assembly resolution 60/251 of 15 March 2006, Recalling its resolutions 5/1, on institution-building of the Human Rights Council, and 5/2, on the Code of Conduct for Special Procedure Mandate Holders of the Human Rights Council, of 18 June 2007, and stressing that mandate holders shall discharge their duties in accordance with those resolutions and the annexes thereto, 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,1 which was welcomed by both the Human Rights Council and the General Assembly and transmitted to the relevant bodies of the United Nations, including the Security Council, Deeply concerned about the systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that, in many instances, constitute crimes against humanity, and the pervasive culture of impunity and lack of accountability for human rights violations and abuses in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as described in the report of the commission of inquiry, Recalling the responsibility of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to protect its population from crimes against humanity, and noting that the General Assembly, in its resolution 79/181, recalled that the commission of inquiry had urged the leadership of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to prevent and suppress crimes against humanity and to ensure that perpetrators were prosecuted and brought to justice, 1 A/HRC/25/63. GE.25-05547 (E)