A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 78 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted Government Response penalty. Despite harsh penalties, a considerable number of citizens of the DPRK clandestinely cross international borders. There are at least 50,000 DPRK citizens who have irregular visa status in the Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian (Jilin Province, PRC), which borders the DPRK and is home to about one million Chinese citizens of Korean ethnicity. The People’s Republic of China has a general policy of arresting and deporting DPRK citizens who do not possess a valid visa. The Chinese authorities consider them to be irregular migrants who cross the border for purely economic reasons. Upon their return to the DPRK, deported persons are usually first taken to the state security agency (bowibu) where they are subject to beatings, humiliating body searches, and interrogated on their activities in China. After the interrogations, which can take a week or longer, the majority of persons are sent without trial or any form of judicial process to a labour training camp (nodong danryundae) or a provincial detention centre (jipkyulso), close to their hometown. Upon arrival, they are usually again stripped, searched, interrogated and beaten. Detained for several months in inhuman conditions in overcrowded, unsanitary cells, they are forced to perform long hours of hard labour. Some detention centres force prisoners to attend re-education sessions every night. Food rations usually consist of corn gruel or soup with a bit of cabbage, three times a day. The combination of hard labour, substandard food and unsanitary living conditions and forcing the allies and various individuals of the world to join their plot against DPRK. In the light of its impure political motives, provocative nature and fabricated contents, the communication sent to the Government, at the same time as the above attempts, can be construed as nothing but an inevitable product of a conspiracy undertaken in line with the attempts of hostile forces. Therefore the Government resolutely rejects the communication. It cannot ignore the fact that the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the DPRK, who has taken sides with the hostile forces, is among the sponsors of the communication. As stated on several occasions, the Government rejects the resolution on DPRK, which is aimed at overthrowing the State and social system, and does not even recognize the Special Rapporteur appointed pursuant to that resolution. This position of the Government will remain invariable. As for the five other thematic rapporteurs listed in the letter, the Government treated them with sincerity in the past, inter alia, replying to them to remove their concerns, and maintaining contacts with them in one way or another, since they then promised to pursue genuine promotion of human rights, if only by words. However, they responded to this sincerity and generosity with hostility by provoking the Government on the basis of information fabricated by hostile forces. By way of this, they unilaterally turned their back on