North Korea: Human Rights

Baroness Jolly Excerpts
Wednesday 23rd July 2014

(10 years, 3 months ago)

Grand Committee
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Baroness Jolly Portrait Baroness Jolly (LD)
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I am sorry, but the noble Lord is speaking in the gap and his time is four minutes.

Lord Burnett Portrait Lord Burnett
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I will finish by saying that we know how sensitive the matter is. We in Britain have a great deal of influence in the world. We in Parliament must continually impress on our Government the necessity to bring about the changes that should have been made decades ago to this cruel, unforgiving regime, which has for years imposed itself on the people of North Korea.