With all due respect to Secretary Rice. I have come to doubt that our State Department is as serious about ending these atrocities as it Is about pretending that we have progressed toward disarming North Korea. Why. more than 3 years after this Congress unanimously passed the North Korean Human Rights Act. are American consulates in China and other countries still refusing to let North Korean refugees in their gates? Under Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill. who tells us that he intends to make human rights one of many issues to be addressed through a "normalization working group" within the sixparty talks. now says that America can raise its objections to these atrocities "in the context of two states that have diplomatic relations." Some of us had observed years ago that Ambassador Lefkowitz. our Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea. has been sidelined and silenced. Recently. we watched with embarrassment how he was treated when he dared to make the obvious connection between Kim Jong Ils malice toward his own people and his malice toward us.
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