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Dennis P. Halpin
Dennis P. Halpin, a former Foreign Service Officer and senior Congressional staff, is a consultant on Asian issues.
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Opinion North and South Korea: Toujours tristeEvents at end of April, beginning of May highlight ongoing struggle for victims’ recognition on Korean Peninsula
The end of April continues to see a major focus in Washington on all things Korean, North and South. That indefatigable champion for North Korean human rights, Suzanne Scholte, will be bringing North Korea Freedom Week back to the nation’s capital after a hiatus of several years in Seoul. Human rights activists will again chase down legislators, as they did in their successful lobbying for the 2004 Leach-Lantos-Brownback North Korean Human Rights Act, urging them not to forget the huddled masses yearning to breathe free in North Korea. This past Sunday, North Korean defectors laid a wreath at the Korean © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |