Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what steps he is taking with international counterparts to prevent North Korea from committing sanctions violations.

We are clear that until the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) returns to dialogue, all countries must fully implement United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions, including the enforcement of sanctions agreed by the UNSC to curtail the DPRK's prohibited programmes. The UK has stationed two offshore patrol vessels, HMS Tamar and HMS SPEY, which have conducted multiple enforcement operations in the Indo-Pacific against illicit DPRK maritime activity to uphold the rules based international order.