E/CN.4/2005/65 page 24 105. Reports state that impunity is a continuing cause of violence and armed insurrection. In this connection, grave concern was expressed that the Government has failed to take adequate measures to establish responsibility for the violations and bring those responsible to justice. The judiciary, it is stated, has also failed to protect Congolese citizens from arbitrary arrests, unlawful detentions and torture. 106. It is alleged that members of the relatives’ association had not been asked or allowed to testify before the commission of inquiry set up in August 2001, by the country’s transitional parliament, the Conseil national de transition (CNT), to investigate disappearances. Concern was also expressed that some members of the commission claimed the allegations of disappearances were politically motivated and therefore not worthy of investigation. 107. In reply to these general allegations, the Government of the Congo stated that the Working Group has no reason to comment on this issue for the reason that the “Commission on Human Rights ended its examination of the situation of human rights in the Congo at its fifty-seventh session”. In a letter, the Working Group explained that these allegations had been received from non-governmental organizations. It also recalled that the Working Group’s mandate allows it to comment on cases of enforced or involuntary disappearances throughout the world. 108. Despite a number of reminders, no information has ever been received by the Working Group from the Government regarding the 34 outstanding cases. The Working Group is, therefore, still unable to report on the fate and whereabouts of the persons concerned. Observations 109. The Working Group wishes to remind the Government of the Republic of the Congo of its responsibility to conduct thorough and impartial investigations “for as long as the fate of the victim of enforced disappearance remains unclarified”, in accordance with article 13, paragraph 6, of the Declaration. 110. Further, the Working Group invites the Government of the Republic of Congo to cooperate to clarify the 34 outstanding cases. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 111. During the period under review, one new case of disappearance was transmitted to the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea under the urgent-action procedure. 112. The newly-reported case concerned Kyoung-Sook Jin, a young woman believed to be pregnant, who was reportedly abducted at the border between China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea by four agents of the Democratic Republic’s security services in plainclothes and taken across the Tumen River to the Korean side. 113. The Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea replied that, according to the results of its investigations, no incidents or similar acts occurred in its border area with China.