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On the recordFebruary 6, 2017
We all pray for the overthrow of this regime, but no regime has been overthrown to my knowledge in maybe the last 50 years where they had a core of fighting men who were willing to machine gun thousands of their own citizens, if necessary.
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Brad Sherman
Democratic · California

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Sherman discusses the difficulty of overthrowing regimes like North Korea's due to their violent control.

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