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QUESTION: Thank you, sir. On China, regarding the Chinese Government labor exploitation of North Korean defectors and their repatriation to North Korea, have you discussed this measure – I mean this matter with China, and what measures is the United States currently taking on this?
AMBASSADOR GILCHRIST: Well, as has been announced, the Secretary will soon be traveling to the PRC this week, and he will, as he does in all of his engagements with the PRC, raise human rights at the highest levels and in the clearest way. And that means with regard to the full array of concerns that we have with the PRC. I won’t go into details with regard to specific conversations, but of course this is an issue that remains of concern and is one that we raise with our Chinese counterparts.
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Source: U.S. Department of State
Speaker: Ambassador Robert S. Gilchrist, Senior Bureau Official for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Format: Press Briefing
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