Seoul is “positively considering” whether to support an annual U.N. resolution condemning human rights violations in North Korea for the first time in years, in what would mark the Yoon administration’s latest shift from its predecessor's pro-engagement strategy.

The U.N. has adopted the Resolution on the Situation of human rights in the DPRK every year since 2003. The 2022 version, passed in April, condemned “in the strongest terms the long-standing and ongoing systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations in the State,” while also calling for Pyongyang to allow the U.N.’s human rights commissioner to visit the country.