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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - His Royal Highness Prince Zeid Bin Ra'ad, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, will begin on Tuesday a three-day official visit to Seoul, South Korea.

The commission said in a statement that the Prince will open a new UN Human Rights office to work on the human rights situation in North Korea.

In accordance with one of the recommendations of the ground-breaking February 2014 report of the independent international Commission of Inquiry on human rights in North Korea, the 47-member UN Human Rights Council last year requested the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to establish "a field-based structure to strengthen monitoring and documentation of the situation of human rights in North Korea. It also requested the office to engage in technical assistance and advocacy with a wide range of partners.

During his visit to Seoul, the High Commissioner is also scheduled to meet President Park Geun-hye as well as a number of high-level Government and State officials and the Chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission. He will also meet civil society organizations to discuss the human rights situation in North Korea as well as human rights issues in South Korea.

Prince Zeid will also deliver a speech at Yonsei University on "Korea in the human rights world." At the end of his visit Thursday, the High Commissioner will hold a press conference in Seoul.