Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, whether the UK will refuse to recognise North Korea as a nuclear state.

The UK does not recognise the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a nuclear weapons state. The DPRK cannot have the status of a nuclear-weapon State in accordance with the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), as stated in UNSC resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009). We call upon the DPRK to return to, and fully comply with the NPT and International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards, as well as to comply with its international obligations in accordance with UNSC resolutions.