Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the UN sanctions regime against North Korea.

As the Foreign Secretary made clear in his statement (https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2017-09-05/debates/C42A1D96-73C1-4D71-883E-BC8F83842285/KoreanPeninsula), it is crucial that the international community maintains pressure on the North Korean regime, both diplomatically and through sanctions. Measures against the financial sector and commodity exports make it harder for the DPRK to fund its illegal programmes. The unanimous adoption of UNSCRs 2371 on 5 August and UNSCR 2375 on 11 September, with the toughest package of sanctions on DPRK yet, demonstrates the level of consensus among the international community on this issue.