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Chris Smith: They are using food as a weapon--talking about the dictatorship--against their own people. They are committing genocide…

On the recordSeptember 19, 2011
They are using food as a weapon--talking about the dictatorship--against their own people. They are committing genocide, and I think we have to care.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith discusses the North Korean regime's use of food as a weapon against its citizens.

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