Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what discussions he has had with his US counterpart on recent missile tests in North Korea; whether he has made any (a) political and (b) military commitments to the US relating to North Korea; and if he will make a statement.

I refer the Hon. Member to the statement made by my Rt Hon Friend, the Foreign Secretary on 5 September (https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-09-05/debates/C42A1D96-73C1-4D71-883E-BC8F83842285/KoreanPeninsula). The Foreign Secretary regulary speaks to US Secretary of State Tillerson about the situation in North Korea. We are working with the US and our partners in the region to bring this crisis to a diplomatic end.