Justice Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn said implementation measures should be drafted to follow up on the recommendations in a new draft resolution on North Korea's human rights issue submitted to the UN General Assembly. 
 
Speaking at a symposium on the North’s human rights violations at the National Assembly in Seoul on Friday, Hwang said the efforts to enhance the human rights situation in the North will become an important key to achieving peaceful unification between the two Koreas.
 
Also at the symposium, Cho Jung-hyun, a professor at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, said that the UN Commission of Inquiry has eliminated the statute of limitations on the North’s human rights abuses by defining it as a crime against humanity. 
 
Cho added that it has opened the way for discussions on how to punish those who are responsible for the North Korean human rights abuses based on domestic or international laws.
 
Lawyer Han Myung-sup, a member of the presidential committee for unification preparation, recommended that the justice ministry install an archive to preserve records of illegal activities under the current North Korean regime that can be used after unification.
 
The Ministry of Justice plans to reflect the result of the discussion from the symposium in its policies regarding the North Korean human rights issue.