Rep. Steve Chabot @RepSteveChabot 09.06.2018
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The Shocking Truth About North Korean Human Rights Abuse
This week, as chairman of the House Subcommittee on Asia and Pacific, I convened a hearing to discuss the shocking truth of North Korean tyranny. One of the witnesses testifying was Grace Minhee Jo, a survivor who experienced the horrors of North Korea's tortuous regime first hand. Her story is heartbreaking, but her perspective is invaluable. In her testimony, she recalled how her father and pregnant mother were taken away by the state and tortured for months-on-end, as punishment for crossing the border into China to purchase food for their starving family. She also described the pain of learning about how her father was beaten with a club until it broke, starved, and ultimately passed away on a train, which was taking him to a prison camp. She conveyed that North Korea is: "A country that beats people to death like they are animals for having a religion; a country that [sentences] a family of three generations for one family member’s trivial comment; a country that requires a travel permit for someone to attend his or her parents’ funeral… In novels, books, biographies, and poems, nothing else can be written but praises of the Great Leader. It is a country with absolutely no freedom." The time for willful blindness of North Korea's abuses must come to an end. I encourage you to read and share Grace's story HERE.
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