South Korea announced its official support for an in-depth investigation by the United Nations into human rights violations in North Korea on Wednesday. The resolution only needs majority support from the 47-member U.N. Human Rights Council.

South Korea’s deputy Foreign Minister for Global affairs, Kim Bong Hyun, told the council that South Korea would “actively” support the resolution, and remarked that the human rights situation in North Korea has “continued to deteriorate.”

The resolution comes on the heels of a damning report issued earlier in the month by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North