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“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I rise in support of H.R. 4240, the Ambassador James R. Lilley and Congressman Stephen J. Solarz North Korea Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2012. I would like to thank my coauthor and ranking member, my good friend, Mr. Berman, and the dozens of bipartisan cosponsors who have joined us to continue the important human rights work that Congress began 9 years ago. The North Korean regime remains one of the world's worst human rights abusers as the legacy of tyranny has been passed on to a new generation. South Korea's National Human Rights Commission detailed, in a 380- page report released earlier this month, that Kim Jong-Un maintains the same hellish gulag as his father and grandfather before him. Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children are forced into slave labor, starved, and tortured to death in isolated camps. Even outside the camps, the North Korean people enjoy no freedoms of speech, religion, press, or assembly. {time} 1740 Officials crush any dissent and have reportedly authorized the on- the-spot execution of those attempting to flee the country. A regime that maims its own people with impunity, cannot be trusted to keep its agreements with foreigners. Thus, solving the North Korean human rights issue is also an integral part of addressing the North Korean security threat.…”