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finding solutions to human rights and humanitarian issues
including abductees, detainees, and POWs still held in
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North Korea. The summit emphasized that the bedrock of
the trilateral alliance is shared values, including democracy,
capitalism, and upholding human rights.

Information campaigns and “the three stories.”

To empower the people of North Korea, we must step up
efforts to send them information from the outside world—
information basically telling them three fundamental
stories. First, the story of their own human rights, which
they do not know. Second, the story of the corruption of
their leadership, especially the corruption of the Kim family
regime. Third, the story of the outside world, especially that
of South Korea, a free and democratic country and a global
economic powerhouse. The Kim family regime is a political
monopoly, facing no internal opposition. The only threat to its
own survival is the other Korea. Koreans living in the North
must understand that unification under a liberal democratic,
successful, capitalist Republic of Korea is the only way to
dramatically improve their human security and bring them
into the 21st century.

The people of North Korea need to realize that their country
assumed international obligations when it became a UN
member state. North Korea now has an obligation to observe

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