Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they have taken to call for restraint and a de-escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula, further to the destruction of the Inter-Korean Joint Liaison Office near Kaesong on 16 June.

The UK is concerned by North Korea's unprovoked demolition of the Kaesong Liaison Office and by their recent inflammatory remarks criticising South Korea. We are in contact with international partners and support South Korea in its efforts to maintain calm and stability. The UK is committed to securing peace on the Korean peninsula and the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of North Korea.