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Eliot Engel: “This bill would broaden U.S. sanctions against those helping sustain the regime in Pyongyang whose crimes against…”

On the recordApril 4, 2014
This bill would broaden U.S. sanctions against those helping sustain the regime in Pyongyang whose crimes against humanity the U.N. Human Rights Office says are, and I quote, "without parallel in the modern world."
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Engel discusses the need for broader sanctions against North Korea due to severe human rights abuses.

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