Professor Muntarbhorn focused his conversation on the general state of human rights in North Korea and on recent trends, re-flected in his latest report presented before the United Nations General Assembly on October 22, 2009.Professor Muntarbhorn is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Demo-cratic People’s Republic of Ko-rea (DPRK). The role of the Special Rapporteur is to monitor and investigate human rights abuse. The Special Rapporteur reports to Geneva, to the General Assembly, and in some instances, directly to the Security Council.