[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3190]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    NORTH KOREA AND THE AXIS OF EVIL

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, President Bush said that there is an axis of 
evil governments at work in the world today, three countries ruled by 
evil governments that sponsor terrorism, practice genocide, and seek 
weapons of mass destruction. It should be pointed out that it is the 
governments, the rulers of these three countries the President has 
talked about, not the people who live there.
  No one knows better than the people of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea 
that their rulers are evil. Take, for example, the boy in this picture. 
A German doctor who was visiting the North Korean countryside took this 
photo more than a year ago. He said, When I see the brainwashing, 
starvation, concentration camps, medical experiments, and mass 
executions, I must say that Kim Jong Il is an upgraded version of 
Hitler's Nazi Germany. Children like this suffer from starvation, 
oppression, poor medical care, while the ruling elite live like kings.
  The people of North Korea and other axis countries live in constant 
fear and, while they are sorely oppressed, they dare not complain. The 
people are not the ones that the President is talking about; it is the 
governments of these countries that are brutally oppressing their 
people.

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