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Number Three, and this has been the long-standing one and is what they attempted
during the Korean War, is to take over the peninsula by force.

And how do they approach things? T ey use a f ve-fold pattern where they precipitate a
crisis. T ey get to the negotiating table who they want. T ey negotiate benef ts, swallow
those benef ts, break the agreement. “Rinse and recycle.” It is very important for countries
dealing with the DPRK to interrupt and not allow this sort of pattern to persist. T is
pattern must be disrupted and I don’t say this in general in terms of diplomacy, but there
is a need for coercive diplomacy in regards to North Korea because they operate on the
basis of force and they don’t understand things other than force. T is is why Kim Jong Un
despises the weakness of President Moon and why he respected the strength of President
Trump in the last administration.

Let me pivot at this point though to justice and human rights issues. Without justice
there cannot be a deep and lasting peace on the peninsula.

Chairperson Myong Hae Kim correctly noted that North Korea does not uphold a single
right, not a single right in the UN Declaration of Human Rights. T ey don’t uphold a
single right in their own constitution. Human rights are not worth the paper that they are
printed on because their government does not follow them.

T erefore I coined a new term to describe this state in North Korea. I coined the term
“rightlessness” because it is a country where no right of the people is upheld and protected
by its own government. It is a state of “rightlessness.”

What sort of rights are violated? One of the most profound expressions of this
“rightlessness” are the concentration camps in North Korea, which are often hidden
between mountains and in out-of-the-way places when satellite imagery is used to confront
the North Korean government. They claim these are merely farming villages. They are
not. T ey are concentration camps. T ink Hitler. T ink the gulags of Stalin. T ese are the
sorts of concentration camps we are talking about. And worse than those because Kim
Il Sung instituted the policy that three generations of anti-revolutionaries must suffer
in these camps. And so you can be born in a Total Control Zone concentration camp in
North Korea for no other reason than that one of your grandparents was deemed an anti-
communist revolutionary.

But the whole country is a slave state. One jail of a country. Another way to describe
North Korea is a criminal cult. T ey are committing all manner of human rights violations