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When these U.S. citizens were hooded and being taken to
a location that they did not know, they thought they were
being brought to their execution site. Instead, when they were
released and saw the U.S. plane, they started running to the
plane and to freedom. One of them handed a card to then-
Secretary of State Pompeo with the following Scripture:
“When the captives were brought back, we were like men
who dreamed.” (Psalm 126-1). Pompeo has cited the release
of these U.S. citizens as his “greatest accomplishment as
Secretary of State.”

Dealing with the Problems:

Apply Universal Justice and Prosecute Offenders

As I said in person to the Minister of Unification in the Sages
Conference 2023, and in the largest North Korean human
rights conference in the U.S. in Hawaii (December 4, 2023),
South Korea can prosecute Kim Jong-Un and other top
leaders of North Korea if it has the courage and willingness
to do so. It has jurisdiction because the South Korean
Constitution counts all Koreans, including North Koreans, as
citizens under its jurisdiction.

Sharing representative anecdotes such as this one can help
bring these atrocities to life:

“Mr. Jeong Kwang-Il was detained in an
underground interrogation facility operated by the Ministry
of State Security, North Korea (SSD) in Hoeryong (North

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