France–North Korea relations

Relations between the France and North Korea are officially non-existent. France is one of the only two European Union members not to recognise North Korea, the other being Estonia. France therefore officially recognises South Korean sovereignty over the Korean peninsula. There is no French embassy, nor any other type of French diplomatic representation, in Pyongyang, and no DPRK embassy in Paris. There is, however, a North Korean diplomatic office in Neuilly sur Seine, near Paris. [ [http://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q12/12-58175QE.htm Official website of the French National Assembly] ] [ [http://www.abm.fr/fiche/cdn2a.html Address of the North Korean diplomatic representation in France] ]

France's official position is that it will consider establishing diplomatic relations with the DPRK if and when the latter abandons its nuclear weapons programme and improves its human rights record. [ [http://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q12/12-58175QE.htm Official website of the French National Assembly] ]

Economic relations are also limited. In 2005, French imports from North Korea were worth €24 million, and French exports to North Korea €6 million. [ [http://www.quid.fr/2007/Situation_Economique/Commerce_Exterieur/2 "Economie française: Commerce extérieur] , Quid]

In 2005, there were officially 54 North Koreans living in France. [ [http://www.quid.fr/2007/Geographie_Humaine_France/Donnees_Globales/1 "Etrangers en France"] , Quid] The only French residents in North Korea are humanitarian workers. [ [http://www.premiere-urgence.org/Missions/Coree-cadre.htm Première Urgence] ] France provides humanitarian aid to the DPRK, and allows a small number of North Korean students to study in France every year. [ [http://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q12/12-58175QE.htm Official website of the French National Assembly] ]

The North Korean film "The Journal of a Schoolgirl" was released in France in 2007.

See also

* Foreign relations of France
* Foreign relations of North Korea
* French-South Korean relations

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