A/HRC/RES/43/25 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to prevent and suppress crimes against humanity and to ensure that perpetrators were prosecuted and brought to justice, Concerned that the precarious humanitarian situation in the country is exacerbated by the restrictions imposed by the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the free and unimpeded access for humanitarian agencies to all populations in need, Concerned also that the humanitarian and human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea may further deteriorate by the current threat of COVID-19, emphasizing the importance of timely assistance to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the event of an outbreak of COVID-19 in the country, in accordance with relevant Security Council resolutions, and underlining in this regard the importance of free and unimpeded access to all populations in need, Acknowledging General Assembly resolution 74/166, in which the Assembly noted with concern the findings of the United Nations that 10.9 million people in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea were estimated to be undernourished, one third of children 6 to 23 months of age did not receive a minimum acceptable diet, 1 in 5 children suffered from stunting (chronic malnutrition), around 9 million people were estimated to have limited access to quality health services, and 39 per cent, or an estimated 9.75 million, of people did not have access to a safely managed drinking water source, including 56 per cent of people in rural areas, condemning the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea for its national policies of, among others, diverting its resources into pursuing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles over the welfare of its people and their access to food, and emphasizing the necessity for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to respect and ensure the welfare and inherent dignity of the people in the country, as referred to by the Security Council in its resolutions 2321 (2016) of 30 November 2016, 2371 (2017) of 5 August 2017, 2375 (2017) of 11 September 2017 and 2397 (2017) of 22 December 2017, Reaffirming that it is the responsibility of the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to ensure the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms of its entire population, including by ensuring equal access to adequate food, as well as, among others, freedom of religion or belief, freedom of expression and freedom of association and assembly, Recognizing that particular risk factors affect women, children, persons with disabilities and the elderly, and the need to ensure the full enjoyment of all their human rights and fundamental freedoms by them against neglect, abuse, exploitation and violence, and taking note in this regard of the concluding observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the combined second to fourth periodic reports of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea2 and the concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child on the fifth periodic report of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea,3 Encouraging the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to implement all of the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities in her report on her visit to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, submitted to the Human Rights Council at its thirty-seventh session,4 and noting with appreciation also the submission of the initial report of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 5 in December 2018, Acknowledging the participation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the third cycle of the universal periodic review, noting the acceptance by the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea of 132 out of the 262 recommendations contained in the outcome of the review,6 and its stated commitment to implement them and to look into 2 3 4 5 6 2 CEDAW/C/PRK/CO/2-4. CRC/C/PRK/CO/5. A/HRC/37/56/Add.1. CRPD/C/PRK/1. A/HRC/42/10.