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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government 

whether they accept the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1) that North Koreans who are deemed to be opponents of the State are routinely sent to gulags, become slave labour, are subjected to forced abortions, torture and execution, and (2) that repatriation of refugees invariably results in them being sent to gulags.

  HL4028

Question HL4028: tabled on 11 December 2017 and due for answer by 27 December 2017

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Lord Alton of Liverpool to ask Her Majesty's Government 

whether they accept the findings of the UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (1) that North Koreans who are deemed to be opponents of the State are routinely sent to gulags, become slave labour, are subjected to forced abortions, torture and execution, and (2) that repatriation of refugees invariably results in them being sent to gulags.

  HL4028
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Lord Alton of Liverpool
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