Chris Smith actually said...

"As draconian as these measures have been, the current situation is even more critical for the North Korean defectors recently arrested in China, most face execution because of three factors."

"Congressman Smith, you will remember that in September you hosted a hearing with a North Korean defector, Kim Hye Sook, the longest serving survivor of the North Korean political prison camps."

"We consider it essential to defend the fundamental rights of North Koreans to leave their country and seek asylum abroad."

"We call upon China to stop its forcible repatriation of North Koreans and provide them with the needed human rights and humanitarian protection."