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<p>We continue to emphasise to China that people fleeing North Korea should be treated
as legitimate asylum claimants and should not be returned as stipulated by the 1951
UN Refugee Convention. We raised the principle of non-refoulement at the UK/China
Human Rights Dialogue in June 2017. We also make clear our concerns to China on individual
cases as appropriate.</p><p>We have not specifically raised the resettlement of North
Korean refugees in the Republic of Korea with the Chinese Government.</p>
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