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	date	05/02/2018
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	North Korea: Human Rights
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent representations has he made to the Government of North Korea on human rights abuses in that country.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	126706
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>​The UK has grave concerns about the human rights situation in North Korea. In our bilateral exchanges and in multilateral fora, we continue to call on the North Korean government to acknowledge and address the many reports of serious and wide-ranging human rights violations in the country. In his end of session statement at the UN General Assembly's Third Committee in November last year, my noble friend Lord Ahmad welcomed the adoption by consensus of a resolution on North Korea and the international community's resolute condemnation of the North Korean regime's human rights abuses. I made clear when I summoned the North Korean Ambassador last year in response to its ballistic missile tests that North Korea should prioritise the well-being of its people over the illegal pursuit of nuclear weapons.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 08/02/2018 16:34:23 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew

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	registered interest
	date	22/11/2017
	answering body	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept id	16
	answering dept short name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	answering dept sort name	Foreign and Commonwealth Office
	hansard heading	North Korea: Detainees
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to the Chinese Government on North Koreans detained in that country following their crossing into China.
	tabling member constituency	Stroud
	tabling member printed	Dr David Drew
	uin	115101
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/11/2017 answer text <p>We are aware of reports of North Korean refugees in China.</p><p>Despite claims by the DPRK authorities that forcibly repatriated refugees are well treated and reintegrated into DPRK society, reports suggest that they are often mistreated by the authorities.</p><p>We raised the issue of non-refoulement​​ directly with the Chinese authorities at the UK-China Human rights Dialogue, which was held in Beijing on 27 June.</p> answering member constituency Cities of London and Westminster answering member printed Mark Field question first answered 30/11/2017 17:31:28 answering member 1405 label Biography information for Mark Field
	tabling member	252 label Biography information for Dr David Drew