South Korea has unveiled a three-year plan to investigate North Korean human rights abuses and to find ways of passing the investigation results to ordinary North Koreans.

The Unification Ministry plan is mandated by the North Korean Human Rights Act that went into effect in September last year.

Under the plan which covers 2017 to 2019, the government will seek inter-Korean talks on human rights and push for providing humanitarian assistance to vulnerable people in the North including infants and pregnant women.