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Chris Smith: “I think we will begin to have a means of peacefully imploding the regime in North Korea, of sending a signal to China…”

On the recordMarch 4, 2012
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.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith discusses strategies to undermine North Korea's regime and pressure China.

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