Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Before I leave I want to leave this formal report of the commissioner of inquiry. I hope you can accept this.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I want to add one more thing. When we are talking about freedom of expression, that implies freedom of expression of thought. Freedom of opinion means freedom of expression of thought. But when we're talking about expression, we may express our thoughts, and at the same time we m

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Please, is the question for me?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It is very unfortunate that he changed his testimony. He has changed his story, but the essence of his testimony is what is happening in North Korea, especially in the political prisoner camps. He changed his story of how he was tortured at age 20 and said 13 instead of 20, and h

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It depends how you define a political prison camp. I hear in the testimony of other political prison camp survivors that the degree of the punishment, isolation, and torture is a little bit different. In the case of Camp 18, it is not a total control zone. As they said, a real p

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Some months ago, when the UN General Assembly was trying to pass the resolution, the North Korean authorities wanted to negotiate. In exchange for deletion of the critical elements of the resolution, they would allow the UN special rapporteur to visit North Korea. At the same tim

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As mentioned, there are two ways the government survives. One is deification of the supreme leader and the other is physical control. Let's say, if we have a human rights in North Korea act here in Canada, first of all, whatever it contains and whatever the contents are, the impl

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Let me correct the answer. UFD, for whom he was working, was not dealing with physical control, physical dictatorship.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and honourable members of the subcommittee. As you all know, in February of last year, the UN commission of inquiry report that was released effectively branded North Korea as a totally tyrannical state, worse than a Nazi state, as Mr. Jang stat