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Suzanne Scholte is the president of the Defense Forum Foundation, a nonprofit foundation that sponsors educational programs on foreign affairs, defense, national security, and human rights issues. She also serves as the US partner of the Citizens Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, the Chairman of the US-Western Sahara Foundation, and is the treasurer and a founding board member of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea.

DFF is best known its Congressional Defense and Foreign Policy Forum, which holds monthly national security briefings on Capitol Hill for members of Congress and their senior staff. Prior to becoming president of DFF, Mrs. Scholte worked as Chief of Staff to Congressman Mac Sweeney. She was the youngest Chief of Staff on Capitol Hill at that time.

Mrs. Scholte has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on the North Korean human rights situation and and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. In addition, she has had articles published in The Washington Times, The Washington Post, Freedom Review, and the Chosun Ilbo. She was featured in a front page article in The New York Sun on June 30, 2003, entitld "Meet the Unsung AngeL Behind the North Korean Human Right Push."

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Senator Sam Brownback’s Press Conference on

Posted on: Wednesday, June 25th, 2003 by Suzanne Scholte

I want to thank Senator Sam Brownback on behalf of the North Korean refugees for the legislation that he will introduce today. I will discuss briefly why this legislation is so critical. As many of you know, the horror stories pouring out of North Korea are among the worst in the world today: death camps where even children are imprisoned and forced to do hard labor; whole families committing suicide together to avoid the slow, painful death of starvation; parents cradling their starving children in their arms unable to offer them any food; people subsisting on bark and grass and others reduced to cannibalism; a regime indifferent to the suffering of its people that uses food as a weapon against them diverting it to its military and party elite and preventing aid from reaching whole regions of the country. Fleeing starvation, these helpless refugees arrive in China where they are hunted down like criminals. The Chinese government offers financial rewards for those citizens who turn in these desperate starving refugees, while jailing humanitarian workers who go to China for the main purpose of providing them food and shelter. If these refugees are caught and returned to North...

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