Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I first want to commend Mr. Lee for bringing up the importance of a North Korea human rights act. As I think you put it, this would give hope to the North Korean people themselves. It has importance as a symbolic as well as substantive statement. I have drafted in the past a comprehensive motion on North Korea, and would like to do a North Korea human rights act, but it would go nowhere as a private member's bill, unfortunately. I'm hoping that perhaps at the end of testimony today this committee might consider a motion to recommend to the government that it consider a North Korea human rights act, because it would be much more important if it came from the government.
The second thing I want to express my appreciation for is adding the sixth consideration to R2P, regarding the responsibility to rescue.
Let me get to the particular question. Recently UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed purported overtures by North Korea's government to improve access, as the Secretary-General put it, in support of human rights monitoring and indications that it would allow greater access to humanitarian relief organizations. What do you make of the Secretary-General's statement, and how does this affect our whole approach with regard to North Korea and the findings regarding their ongoing commission of crimes against humanity?