Kim In-ae, deputy spokesperson for the unification ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs, speaks in a regular press briefing at the government complex in Seoul, April 5. Yonhap

South Korea welcomed Friday the adoption of a United Nations resolution denouncing North Korea's egregious human rights violations and called on the North to take measures to resolve the issue of detainees, abductees and prisoners of war.

The call came a day after the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted by consensus the resolution denouncing North Korea's widespread and systematic human rights violations at the 55th regular session of the UNHRC in Geneva. It marked the 22nd consecutive year the resolution was adopted.

"The government is deeply concerned over systemic, widespread and grave violation of human rights that continues in North Korea and urges the North to take measures to enhance human rights according to the resolution, including resolving the issue of abductees, detainees and prisoners of war as well as ensuring access to information to North Korean residents," Kim In-ae, deputy spokesperson for the unification ministry in charge of inter-Korean affairs, told reporters in a regular press briefing.

Kim said the government has actively taken part in drawing up the resolution and vowed to closely work with the international community to resolve the issue as well as enhance overall rights conditions in the North.

The ministry has stepped up efforts to resolve the rights issue and muster international support for the repatriation of victims. In March, ministry officials visited Geneva with the son of Choi Chun-gil, a South Korean missionary detained in the North.

Choi is one of six South Koreans currently detained in the North for years, including two other missionaries — Kim Jung-wook and Kim Kook-kie — with their whereabouts or fates unknown. (Yonhap)

（作者：汽车音响）