A/HRC/WGAD/2013/36 “1. We must give our all in the struggle to unify the entire society with the revolutionary ideology of the Great Leader Kim Il-Sung. 2. We must honour the Great Leader comrade Kim Il-Sung with all our loyalty. 4. We must make the Great Leader comrade Kim Il-Sung’s revolutionary ideology our faith and make his instructions our creed. 8. We must value the political life we were given by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il-Sung, and loyally repay his great political trust and thoughtfulness with heightened political awareness and skill. 10. We must pass down the great achievement of the revolution by the Great Leader comrade Kim Il-Sung from generation to generation, inheriting and completing it to the end.” 17. The source was informed by a former guard of a political prison camp in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that it is very rare for a prisoner to be released from these camps. In the case of Park Sung Ok, the source observes that she continues to be detained following the termination of her sentence. 18. The source reports that no judicial remedies or appeal procedures are made available to detainees of political prison camps in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. As such, the petitioners have not had the opportunity to seek redress for their sudden arrest, interrogation in a National Security Agency prison and indefinite detention in a political prison camp. The source argues that the deprivation of liberty of the petitioners falls within category III of the arbitrary detention categories referred to by the Working Group when considering the cases submitted to it. Response from the Government 19. By a letter dated 27 August 2013, the Working Group transmitted the allegations set out above to the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, requesting detailed information about the current situation of the above-mentioned petitioners. 20. The Government, in its reply dated 7 October 2013, stated that these alleged cases form part of a political plot against the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea by the authorities of the Republic of Korea. The Government therefore “categorically rejects the cases … as one of the anti-DPRK attempts”. Discussion 21. Three different communications were transmitted to the Government and it is unfortunate that in all three instances (see also No. 34/2013 (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and No. 35/2013 (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea)), it responded in exactly the same way as above, by means of the same letter, without any attempt to discuss the serious allegations against it. 22. The allegations in this case comprise arrests without warrants; indefinite interrogation periods in the premises of the National Security Agency; incommunicado detention; prosecution based on political considerations, including as an act of reprisal for leaving the country, or on the basis of allegations of vague offences that are general and imprecise; a total absence of judicial mechanisms to challenge the legality of the detention or to launch an appeal against conviction; and indefinite detention in political prison camps, often following the completion of the prison sentence. 23. In view of these serious allegations, the Working Group considers that the reply given by the Government, which does not address any of these violations of international law relating to the arrest, detention, judgment, sentencing and appeal procedures 4