Washington, April 28 -- Rep. Chris Smith issued the following press release:
Good afternoon and thank you to everyone joining us today - above all, our witnesses, Tara O and Suzanne Scholte, for their dedicated service to the people of North Korea, and for their unique knowledge of the North Korean human rights movement, which we will benefit from today.
Something important is happening in North Korea-and this is despite the outward appearance of an overwhelmingly controlled society, suffering under what may well be the most comprehensively repressive government in the world.
The government of North Korea continues to operate, as it has for many decades, an unimaginably horrific system of repression-including the pervasive use of torture...