[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 69 (Friday, April 27, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H3728]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         NORTH KOREA WANTS A UNIFIED COMMUNIST KOREAN PENINSULA

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, for generations, the Korean war has 
continued with no feasible end in sight.
  Today, North and South Korea supposedly reached a peace agreement, 
which includes a denuclearized peninsula, but the definition of 
denuclearization is not defined in the agreement.
  To the North, denuclearization only means the U.S. nuclear umbrella 
to protect South Korea will end. To the South and to the U.S., this 
means North Korea will denuclearize.
  This is not the first time little Kim has made agreements only to 
break them. And Kim's delusional idea of a unified Korea is a unified 
communist Korean Peninsula with him in charge, standing against the 
West.
  For over 6 decades, the Kim regime has actively pursued nuclear and 
ballistic weapons, terrorizing anyone who opposes the rogue regime.
  President Trump's hardball tactics have had their intended 
insurmountable effect.
  We must proceed with caution and stand with our allies to ensure that 
this agreement is not merely a ploy to serve North Korea's nefarious, 
totalitarian, aggressive interests.
  And that is just the way it is.

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