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United Nations humanitarian agencies report that more than 40 per cent of the population of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea continues to remain food insecure or suffer from malnutrition. The government’s public distribution system has not been functioning since the early 1990s.

Various efforts by a range of member states continue to be made in order to seek a permanent and durable peace on the Korean Peninsula. While efforts for the peaceful resolution of the conflict on the Korean peninsula continue, there have been no substantial changes in the serious human rights situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. As denuclearization has been at the forefront of the negotiations, human rights issues have so far not been part of this process, and the voices of the people of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including women, have been absent.