; Whereas, despite the obligations of the People’s Republic of China, as a state party to the 1951 United Nations Refugee Convention and the 1967 United Nations Refugee Protocol, the Government routinely classifies North Koreans in China as economic migrants and forcibly returns them to North Korea without regard to the reason they escaped North Korea or the serious threat of persecution they face upon their return; Whereas the United Nations Resolution of November 2023 strongly urge(d) United Nations member states to respect the principle of nonrefoulment, or forced deportations, given the internment, torture, [and] other cruel and degrading treatment or punishment … including the death penalty, faced by North Koreans forcibly returned from the People’s Republic of China; Whereas the People’s Republic of China is a signatory to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, which obligates United Nations member states to protect individuals, regardless of their migratory status, if there is a risk of torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, including the death penalty or enforced disappearances upon return; Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China continues to deny access to its border regions with North Korea to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and to deny the UNHCR staff in the PRC to determine the status of asylum or refugee claims, as the People’s Republic of China is obligated to do by its international legal obligations: Now, therefore, be it