Posted on 10/25/2014 4:18:32 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Ex-US President Bush meets N. Korean defectors
2014/10/24 11:27
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Yonhap) -- Former U.S. President George W. Bush hosted a forum on North Korean human rights in Texas on Thursday (local time), his institute said.
The George W. Bush Presidential Center said he met with leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss ways to address the North Korean human rights problem.
"Five North Korean refugees also shared their stories of escape and their experiences building new lives in the United States as a result of the 2004 North Korean Human Rights Act, which President Bush signed into law 10 years ago," it said in an emailed news release.
The session was part of the Bush Institute's effort to enhance global awareness of the suffering of North Koreans and seek what the U.S. and other nations can do to help them more, according to the institute.
Both in office and after retirement, Bush has paid keen attention to human rights abuse prevalent in the communist nation.
Last year, he invited Shin Dong-hyuk, a North Korean defector who authored a book on the country's political prisoner camp, to his institute in Dallas, Texas.
In 2005, he also met with another defector, Kang Cheol-hwan, co-author of a book on the North's human rights abuse, at the White House.
That is going to tick off the ONE. . . . . Big Time! ! !
President Bush Convenes Refugees and Leaders on North Korean Human Rights
Thursday, October 23, 2014
Dallas, Texas (October 23, 2014) —
Today President Bush met with leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss ways to advance the cause of human freedom in North Korea. Five North Korean refugees also shared their stories of escape and their experiences building new lives in the United States as a result of the 2004 North Korean Human Rights Act, which President Bush signed into law 10 years ago.
The gathering was part of a year-long, bipartisan Bush Institute effort to raise global attention to the human suffering in North Korea and identify additional steps the United States and other free societies can take to support the people of North Korea.
“This project has been unique in its gathering of a diverse group of stakeholders motivated by the singular desire to improve the human condition of North Koreans,” said Victor Cha, a Fellow in Human Freedom at the Bush Institute and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “President Bush cared deeply about this issue while in office and has made this a priority of the Institute’s work in human freedom.”
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O biy someone is behaving more presidential than President Obola. Obola will not be happy.
Thanks
Oddly...I find the title offensive.
He is not an EX, he is a FORMER.
bipartisan Bush Institute
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Bipartisan means one thing to well-intentioned Republicans like GWB but liberals don’t share that view. With them there’s is no such thing as working together or compromising. Naive and gullible Republicans just can’t seem to ever understand that.
I cannot wait until the news reports US Ex-President Obama...
Excellent point...it is a foreign news website so they probably don't know correct protocol...
If it was a USA MSM news source, it would have lead with "Former Idiot President George W Bush" ....:)
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