[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9179]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS ACT

  (Mr. CONNOLLY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CONNOLLY. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to commend the House Foreign 
Affairs Committee for adopting the North Korea Sanctions Act of 2014. I 
am proud to be an original cosponsor of that legislation and was very 
pleased the committee unanimously adopted an amendment of mine to 
strengthen the legislation even further.
  This is an Orwellian regime. In fact, it is so much so that I think 
it would make George Orwell blush that he had not the imagination for 
the kind of suppression, oppression, and degradation that occurs in the 
North Korean regime today.
  Mr. Speaker, 200,000 North Koreans are in gulags throughout the 
country--freedom of expression, freedom of religion, and freedom of 
political practice all repressed; and the terrible, terrible suffering, 
preventing the reunification of Korean families even to visit, the 
complete lack of humanitarian regard by this brutal regime is something 
we Americans cannot ignore, and we here in Congress have an obligation 
to address.
  I commend the House Foreign Affairs Committee today for adopting 
unanimously this important piece of legislation and eagerly look 
forward to supporting it when it comes here to the floor.

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