Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I fully agree. We should have direct-to-China refugee assistance. I'm from Germany, and I saw it work. When the West German government assisted Hungary with opening the border, and Hungary was asked to get a train with all the East German refugees, imagine the train going all t

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  First of all, I would thank you all for listening. Such a hearing is maybe the first step in doing something. I cannot refer to the death camps or anything. As I told you, when you're staying inside North Korea you know nothing. You know only what's on the surface. You have no c

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Once in the middle of 1999 I was standing in the front of the subway in Pyongyang, and there was a mass performance, all the soldiers and it was whatever--a birthday of Kim Il-sung.... There are so many festivities in Pyongyang. So all the people lined up, and thousands and thous

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Honourable Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, thank you for having me. First of all, I would like to apologize for my maybe poor German physician's pronunciation. Hopefully you can understand. You have a lot of material there in your packages. You can see this is not a garage sale,