Chris Smith

I echo and endorse what you said.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is known to be the world's most isolated country as its citizens are prohibited from traveling either internally or internationally without express permission.

And it brings to mind after World War II, it was Eisenhower who said, "Do not burn down the concentration camps," because there were some Germans who were in disbelief that they were real.

North Korea is listed by the State Department as a Tier III country with respect to human trafficking.

I mean, I was telling, or in conversations, conveying information about what I had read and what I had learned from hearings and from defectors...

I really think that we have an opportunity now to focus on improving the flow of information to North Korea.

It is our hope that their testimony will help to galvanize the international community to take action to secure the freedom of those who are needlessly suffering and dying under truly horrific conditions.

I join my voice with that of other Members of Congress urging South Korea to recognize Falun Gong practitioners as refugees.

What has happened, though, is--oh, she was going to speak before them, okay. And they can share that with you. But what happened is with the provocations that have happened against South Korea by North Korea, unprovoked attacks, there has…

North Korea uses food as a weapon against its own people, and they have an apartheid system in North Korea where people are classified based on loyalty to the regime.

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.

I was very disturbed at the behavior of the North Korean leadership in November 2010 when it attacked South Korea's island of Yeonpyeong with artillery shells, killing several people.

Please save the 23 million people in North Korea who are living a life of misery not unlike what I had suffered.

I have asked the administration in hearings and through other means to put China on Tier III for human trafficking.

We need to do much more than we have done. That goes for our subcommittee, the Congress, the executive branch and the free world.

Christians and people of faith are even more selected out for repression especially, and women who are pregnant are often forcibly aborted in an absolutely crude.

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