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On the recordJune 17, 2014
where political prisoners serve as virtual slaves, where starvation is used as a political weapon, and where religious believers, Christians in particular, are imprisoned, tortured and killed with such ferocity that some say it amounts to genocide.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith describes the horrific conditions faced by political prisoners in North Korea.

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