Posted on 04/28/2006 7:35:34 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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Bush Meets N.Korean Defectors, Activists |
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President Bush listened to accounts of the human rights situation in the North from his guests and offered consolation while vowing that the U.S. will do more to fight for improvement of human rights in the Stalinist country, according to sources at the meeting. Bush last met with a North Korean defector when the author of Aquariums of Pyongyang and Chosun Ilbo reporter Kang Chol-hwan -- himself a former detainee in a North Korean camp -- visited 10 months ago. Jay Lefkowitz, the special U.S. envoy for human rights in North Korea, Ryozo Kato, Japanese ambassador to the U.S., and Suzanne Scholte, the head of the activist group Defense Forum Foundation, were also present at Thursdays meeting. Meanwhile, events of a "North Korean Freedom Week" came to an end on "North Korea Freedom Day" Thursday in front of the Capitol in Washington attended by some 1,000 activists and Korean-Americans. In the evening, participants headed to the Chinese embassy for an all-night prayer vigil to call for an end to Beijings forced repatriation of North Korean refugees. |
7 year-old Kim Han-mi and her parents(left) and |
The director of Yoduk Story, Chung Seong-san |
Ping!
OHH rack Dubya on this LOL!
Chia Pet going be roaney I think Chia Pet realize that Dubya is no Bill Clinton or AL Gore THANK GOD
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