| Excellent; Mr. Lagon is one of the good guys. |
“The human rights situation for North Koreans in North Korea and those who have fled (to China) has not improved markedly, it remains horrendous,” said Mark Lagon, the State Department’s director of the office to monitor and combat human trafficking. “For those reasons, we can’t be satisfied with how we in the international community are doing. Clearly we need to do more,” he said at a congressional hearing on human trafficking in China.
“If you want a prescription of what we should do from this point forward — “we must be frank and blunt with the North Korean authorities about their human rights record, which is abysmal,” Lagon said.