Written questions

North Korea: Human Rights

Commons · Question 83223 · Tabled 20 Oct 2025 · Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office · Official record

Answered 27 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Sir Iain Duncan Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the report by the UN Human Rights Office entitled Situation of human rights in the Democratic P

Answer

Answered by Seema Malhotra, 27 Oct 2025

As the September 2025 report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights made clear, there has been no improvement in the human rights situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) since 2014. In response to this report, the UK issued a s...