Mr. Chair, I want to begin by thanking Dr. Vollertsen and Mr. Lee for being here, as well as Madam Kim, whose testimony we heard last Tuesday. I think all of us were very moved by her testimony, as we are today as we continue with this issue.
We want to once again thank the witness for shining a light on a very dark place. As Dr. Vollertsen said, very few of us know what's happening there, and it's intentional why we don't know. The government there does not want us to know the reality, and also doesn't want its people to know the reality.
I'm struck by the testimony and the sheer magnitude of the suffering of the Korean people. My heart goes out to them. We want to know what we can do. At the same time, I want to hear the perspective from Dr. Vollertsen or Mr. Lee, because they know more about what's happening there than we do.
In the last little while we've seen what's taking place in the Middle East. The people there are rising up against dictators. I want to know if there is a sense in Korea of a people's revolution possibly coming up. Was there any group of dissent that you felt there, that people would rise up against this totalitarian regime?