Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-000762/2025
to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Rule 144
César Luena (S&D)
According to the answer to Written Question E-002674/2024[1], ‘the EU in principle does not enumerate individual consular cases in the annual Human Rights Council resolution on human rights in the DPRK’, and ‘the cases relating to Myanmar concerned the highest representatives of the democratically elected government’.
However, the resolutions referred to in the initial question concern the cases of two journalists[2]. See:
- 1.37/32[3], point 25, calls on the Government of Myanmar to ‘immediately release journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo’;
- 2.39/2[4], point 18, ‘Expresses grave concern at the imprisonment, prosecution and sentencing of journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo’;
- 3.40/29[5], point 10, calls on the Government of Myanmar to ‘immediately and unconditionally release journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo’;
- 4.43/26[6], point 8, ‘Welcomes the release of journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo’.
Therefore, will the EU consider specifying the cases of North Korean escapee Kim Cheol-ok and the South Korean missionaries detained for over ten years, Kim Jung-wook, Kim Kook-kie and Choi Chun-gil, in the upcoming draft annual resolution on human rights in the DPRK at the UN Human Rights Council?
Submitted: 19.2.2025
- [1] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-10-2024-002674-ASW_EN.html.
- [2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48182712.
- [3] https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1485543?v=pdf.
- [4] https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/gen/g18/317/39/pdf/g1831739.pdf.
- [5] https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/RES/40/29.
- [6] https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/RES/43/26.