North Korea must demonstrate that it is willing to take steps towards complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization (CVID) before Britain will consider supporting sanctions relief at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the UK’s top diplomat in Seoul told NK News in an interview in late March.

“I think it’s very simple,” Smith said, when asked whether the UK might consider sanctions relief following upcoming DPRK-ROK and DPRK-U.S. summits. “What we have repeated many times is that what we need to see in North Korea is complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization.”

Speaking to NK News following a UK embassy-organized football match