Ed Royce: “I want to thank him for his rather extraordinary work along the North Korean-Chinese border. To my knowledge, he is one…”

“I want to thank him for his rather extraordinary work along the North Korean-Chinese border. To my knowledge, he is one of the few non-North Koreans who has managed to travel into North Korea and because of his extensive interviews of starving men and destitute women and orphaned children across North Korea and in northern China, we know a great deal more about the crisis there. I chair the U.S.-Republic of Korea Interparliamentary Exchange. Last summer I introduced this resolution on North Korean refugees after learning about the unimaginable suffering North Korean refugees face in China. This situation, frankly, is critical right now to the hundreds of thousands of North Koreans that have escaped over the border into China. North Korea systematically starves its population. It attacks freedom of speech, it suppresses religion, it constrains movement of its citizens, and frankly it gives preferential access to social services based on allegiance to the cult of personality surrounding Kim Jung-Il.”