[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 33 (Tuesday, March 22, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 22, 1994]
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                     CRISIS ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA

  (Mr. TORRICELLI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TORRICELLI. Mr. Speaker, a crisis potentially of enormous 
proportions is taking place on the Korean Peninsula, indeed with the 
potential to be the most serious military confrontation of our time. 
The consequences are enormous. North Korea, defying international law 
and all logic, is proceeding with the possibility of the development of 
nuclear weapons, and prohibiting proper inspections.
  It needs to be understood that the audience in this crisis is larger 
than those in Seoul, Washington, Tokoyo, or Beijing. Regimes from Iran 
and Iraq, from South America to South Asia, will be watching. If 
international law can be defied, if the United Nations can be ignored, 
if American will can be broken, the entire international system of 
controlling nuclear weapons and of inspections will be broken.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge the administration to stand firm, to stand 
steady. Do not allow this moment to pass to keep the order in 
maintaining inspections.

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