02/05/2024
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"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."
"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."
"I think we will begin to have a means of peacefully imploding the regime in North Korea, of sending a signal to China that keeping this regime in business costs them more than it gets them."
"Get the human rights piece right and all the others follow, not the other way around."