Mark Kirk: “Mrs. Stanfield has not seen her brother for 50 years. She is a symbol of the 500,000 Korean-Americans separated from…”

“Mrs. Stanfield has not seen her brother for 50 years. She is a symbol of the 500,000 Korean-Americans separated from their families in North Korea. While substantial progress has been made to reunite South-Korean families with their known relatives, nothing has been done for Korean-Americans living in this country. Her cause is our cause, and we have now formed the Korean-American Coalition of the Midwest. I issue a call to sign our petition to put the reunification of 500,000 families, Korean-American families, with their known relatives on the U.S. DPRK agenda. Together we can make this humanitarian cause our cause. I salute our Secretary of State, Colin Powell, and his commitment this morning to review this issue.”