The U.S. has requested a U.N. Security Council (UNSC) meeting next week to discuss North Korean human rights abuses in the Council’s first meeting on the issue in more than five years.

In a statement, Washington’s mission to the U.N. said a UNSC briefing on the DPRK’s human rights situation is “long overdue.”

“The United States and co-penholder Albania — along with Japan and the Republic of Korea — are pleased to announce that we requested a meeting of the Security Council for the morning of Aug. 17 to discuss the DPRK’s human rights abuses and violations and the