North Korea: Sanctions

(asked on 5th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will hold discussions with his US counterpart on future sanctions on North Korea following the recent discussions between the US and North Korea.


Answered by
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Mark Field
This question was answered on 11th March 2019

The Foreign Secretary regularly speaks to his counterparts in the United States about how to secure a diplomatic solution to the threat posed by North Korea’s illegal nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, most recently to Secretary of State Pompeo on 5 March.

We had hoped the talks between President Trump and Kim Jong-Un in Hanoi, Vietnam, 27-28 February, would prove a basis for progress. However, it was clear that there is more work to do espeically on the issue of denuclearisation. We welcome the US commitment to continue negotiations and continue to urge North Korea to engage in this process. We shall maintain the strict enforcement of all sanctions until North Korea takes concrete steps towards its complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation.

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