The United Nations renewed a 2005 North Korean human rights-related resolution once again on Wednesday, while South Korea declined to cosponsor it for the second year in a row.

In line with the past 16 years, the latest resolution basically calls for better human rights in the DPRK and details the horrors that many North Koreans have faced, including murder, political and religious persecution, torture, imprisonment and forced labor.

“The human rights and humanitarian situations in the DPRK remain dire,” a letter from Jennifer Barber, the special advisor and public delegate to the U.S. mission to