Officials from the UK government met with North Korean counterparts and discussed concerns over the country's human rights record on three occasions in early 2015, parliamentary transcripts from Thursday showed.
Lord Alton of Liverpool asked the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Baroness Anelay of St John's, whether or not the government had raised the issue recently with the DPRK and the contents of those discussions.
Officials from the UK government met with North Korean counterparts and discussed concerns over the country's human rights record on three occasions in early 2015, parliamentary transcripts from Thursday showed.
Lord Alton of Liverpool asked the Minister of State for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), Baroness Anelay of St John's, whether or not the government had raised the issue recently with the DPRK and the contents of those discussions.
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