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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

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

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