Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what recent discussions she has had with international counterparts regarding North Korea and that country's potential preparations to carry out a nuclear weapons test.
The UK is deeply concerned by reports that the DPRK may be planning to conduct a nuclear test, its first since 2017. We are working closely with our allies and partners to strongly urge the North Korean regime to return to talks and take credible steps towards denuclearisation. The Foreign Secretary discussed DPRK with her G7 counterparts on 13 May. I have raised concerns about DPRK testing with countries in the region, including with Mongolia, the Republic of Korea and China. Most recently, I raised DPRK with the Chinese Ambassador on 16 June. The UK has also made our concerns about the DPRK's increased ballistic missile testing clear in the UN Security Council and the General Assembly.