North Korea should allow the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) into the country to monitor the impact of sanctions on humanitarian work there, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK told NK News on Thursday.

Tomás Ojea Quintana's comments come as UN and non-governmental-organization sources have in recent weeks indicated that the rapidly growing number of multilateral and unilateral sanctions on North Korea are having adverse side-effects on the provision of humanitarian assistance to the neediest people there.