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• North Korea [r]: State comprising the northern Korean peninsula; officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea with Pyongyang its capital. ^[e]
• Human rights [r]: Natural civil and political rights considered universal and applicable to all human beings worldwide. ^[e]
• U.S. foreign policy [r]: The foreign relations and diplomacy of the United States since 1775. ^[e]

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• Richard Allen [r]: Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, in foreign and national security policy; first National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan; Defense Policy Board in George W. Bush Administration; Co-chair, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Asia policy group, Heritage Foundation; Council on National Policy; International Crisis Group; Freedom House; Senior Counselor on foreign policy to Republican National Committee; founder, Committee on the Present Danger ^[e]Co-Chair, served as the Center for Strategic and International Studies’ first Senior Staff Analyst and Research Principal from 1963 to 1966. During the first year of the Reagan administration, he was Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs. Mr. Allen, who writes and lectures on U.S.-Asian policy, is Chairman of the Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center Advisory Council. A former member of the President's Task Force on U.S. Government International Broadcasting, he currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and as a member of the CSIS Advisory Board. He is president of the Richard V. Allen Company, a Washington-based consulting firm.
• Stephen Solarz [r]: After 18 years as a U.S. Congressman (D-New York) involved with the foreign affairs function, now involved in influential non-governmental organizations concerned with human rights and multinational policy ^[e]
• Suzanne Scholte [r]: President,Defense Forum Foundation; former chief of staff for Congressman Mac Sweeney; Political Director of the Fund for a Conservative Majority and Projects Director for the American Conservative Union' Chairman of the U.S.-Western Sahara Foundation, Chairman of the North Korea Freedom Coalition, Board Member of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and a Board member of Christian Solidarity Worldwide-USA. ^[e] Vice-Chair, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; President, Defense Forum Foundation (DFF); Scholte also chairs the North Korea Freedom Coalition and North Korea Freedom Week to promote awareness and encourage action on this issue. a non-profit educational foundation that sponsors programs on national security, foreign affairs and human rights issues. Human rights in North Korea has been a major focus for the DFF since 1996, when Scholte launched a project to bring defectors from North Korea to the United States to speak out publicly for the first time about conditions in North Korea. Since 1996, DFF has hosted over 57 defectors including North Korea's highest ranking defector, Hwang Jang-yop, Colonel Joo Hwal Choi, diplomats Ko Young Hwan, as well as survivors of the political prison camps Kang Chul Hwan and Ahn Hyok. Since 1998, DFF has been the US partner of the Seoul-based Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights and the Tokyo-based Society to Help Returnees to North Korea. Ms. Scholte organized and testified before the first hearing ever held on North Korea's political prison camps in 1999 and continues to work closely with Members of Congress on hearings to address North Korea human rights issues.
• Helen-Louise Hunter [r]: Attorney; Secretary, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Far East specialist at the Central Intelligence Agency, including service in the 1970s as Assistant National Intelligence Officer for the Far East ^[e] Attorney; Secretary, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Far East specialist at the Central Intelligence Agency, including service in the 1970s as Assistant National Intelligence Officer for the Far East
• Chuck Downs [r]: Add brief definition or description Executive Director, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; former Associate Director of the Asian Studies Program at the American Enterprise Institute; retired House of Representatives foreign affairs adviser; as Deputy Director for Regional Affairs and Congressional Relations in the U.S. Deparatment of Defense East Asia office
• Morton Abramowitz [r]: Now a Senior Fellow at the Century Foundation; former U.S. diplomat, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and International Crisis Group, and still influential in foreign policy; Board member, Executive Director, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea ^[e] Board member, Executive Director, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; is a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation. He retired in 1997 as President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and from the State Department in 1991. Dr. Abramowitz also served recently as Acting President of the International Crisis Group—a multinational, nongovernmental organization headquartered in Brussels and Washington, focusing on crisis prevention. Prior to joining the Carnegie Endowment in August 1991, he was Ambassador to Turkey. He has also served as Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research, United States Ambassador to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Negotiations in Vienna, Ambassador to Thailand, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Inter-American, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State. He also served in Hawaii as political advisor to the Commander-in-Chief, Pacific. He is the author of numerous books and articles.
• Jaehoon Ahn [r]: Add brief definition or description Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; retired as Director of the Korean Service of Radio Free Asia in 2007; 25 years with Washington Post
• Lisa Colacurcio [r]: Add brief definition or description Investment banker; Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
• Roberta Cohen [r]: Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; Senior Associate, Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration; Senior Adviser to the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the Carter Administration ^[e] Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; She is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Senior Associate at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration, Senior Adviser to the Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, and Senior Adviser to the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement. For more than a decade Cohen co-directed the Brookings Project on Internal Displacement, has published more than 100 articles on human rights and humanitarian issues and together with Francis Deng co-authored the first major study on internal displacement, Masses in Flight: The Global Crisis of Internal Displacement (Brookings, 1998). In 2002, Cohen won the DACOR Fiftieth Anniversary Award for Exemplary Writing in Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy, and in 2005, Deng and she won the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. In 2003, Cohen was a public member on the US delegation to the OSCE and in 1998 was a public member on the US delegation to the Commission on Human Rights. Cohen also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights in the Carter Administration, Senior Adviser to the US Delegation to the UN, Honorary Secretary of the Parliamentary Human Rights Group (London) and Executive Director of the International League for Human Rights (NY).
• Abraham Cooper [r]: Add brief definition or description Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
• John Despres [r]: Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement under President Clinton; Senator Bill Bradley's principal staff advisor on national security policy and served as his designated assistant on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; founding Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, and as Assistant to the Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs in 1981. President Carter's administration as Director of Strategic Assessments at the Department of Energy and as National Intelligence Officer for Nuclear Proliferation ^[e] Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; has worked as a consultant on international financial and strategic affairs since his retirement from the U.S. government in 1997. From May 1999 to March 2000, Mr. Despres assisted Bill Bradley in developing foreign, defense and international economic policies for his presidential campaign. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Despres served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Enforcement under President Clinton. From 1985 to 1993, Mr. Despres served as Senator Bill Bradley's principal staff advisor on national security policy and served as his designated assistant on the staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In President Reagan's administration, from 1982 to 1985, Mr. Despres served as the founding Director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University, and as Assistant to the Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs in 1981. From 1977 to 1979, Mr. Despres served in President Carter's administration as Director of Strategic Assessments at the Department of Energy and as National Intelligence Officer for Nuclear Proliferation.
• Nicholas Eberstadt [r]: Add brief definition or description Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute; Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Population and Developmental Studies (1980-present); a Consultant to the World Bank, the U.S. Department of State; the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
• Gordon Flake [r]: Executive Director of the Mike and Maureen Mansfield Foundation; Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Program on Conflict Resolution, Atlantic Council; former Director for Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America ^[e] Executive Director of the Mike and Maureen Mansfield Foundation; Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; i Senior Fellow and Associate Director of the Program on Conflict Resolution, Atlantic Council of the United States.; former served as Director for Research and Academic Affairs at the Korea Economic Institute of America
• Carl Gershman [r]: Board president, National Endowment for Democracy; Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Resident Scholar at Freedom House (1980-81) and Executive Director of Social Democrats, USA (1974-80). ^[e] President of the National Endowment for Democracy by the Endowment's Board of Directors and assumed his position on April 30, 1984; Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; In that capacity he has presided over the development of the Endowment's grants proPrior to his assignment at the United States Mission to the United Nations, Mr. Gershman was a Resident Scholar at Freedom House (1980-81) and Executive Director of Social Democrats, USA (1974-80).
• Fred Iklé [r]: Add brief definition or description Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Strategic & International Studies;Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; member Defense Policy Board; Governor, Smith Richardson Foundation; advisor, American Foreign Policy Council; Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Reagan Administration; former head of the social science department of the RAND Corporation
• Steven Kahng [r]: Add brief definition or description venture capitalist; Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
• Thai Lee [r]: Add brief definition or description is President and Co-CEO of Software House International, Inc., a global procurement outsourcing company and leading business-to-business solutions provider. Ms. Lee has held positions at American Express, Inc. and Proctor & Gamble Company. Notably, she is the first Korean-American woman to graduate from Harvard Business School.
• Debra Liang-Fenton [r]: Add brief definition or description Board member and former executive director, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; previously at the U.S. Institute of Peace and [[National Endowment for Democracy; 2003 keynote presenter to Amnesty International
• James Lilley [r]: Add brief definition or description Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; former ambassador to the Republic of Korea and the People’s Republic of China, specializes in issues pertaining to China, Taiwan, and Korea. He has served as Director of the Institute for Global Chinese Affairs, University of Maryland, 1996-1997; its Senior Adviser, 1998-1999; Philip M. McKenna Visiting Scholar, Claremont McKenna College, 1995; Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Affairs, 1991-1993; Fellow, Harvard University, Institute of Politics, 1991; U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, 1989-1991, and to the Republic of Korea, 1986-1989; Deputy Assistant Secretary of state for East Asian Affairs, 1985-1986; Director, American Institute in Taiwan, 1982-1984; Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, 1978-1980; National intelligence officer for China, 1975-1978
• Andrew Natsios [r]: Add brief definition or description Board member, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; From 1993 to 1998, Natsios was vice president of World Vision U.S., the largest faith-based NGOs in the world
• Gary Ackerman [r]: Add brief definition or description a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is presently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the Fifth Congressional District of New York; Advisor, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea;Congressman Ackerman is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee where he focuses on issues such as national security, nuclear proliferation and terrorism. He is the Ranking Democrat of the International Relations Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, which has oversight of U.S. policy towards the nations of the Middle East and South Asia, including Israel and India. He is also a member of the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, which has jurisdiction over U.S. policy toward countries in Asia and the Pacific. In this capacity, Ackerman made history in October 1993 by traveling to North Korea to discuss with Kim Il Sung, then the country’s leader, the framework under which North Korea would agree to cease building nuclear weapons. Upon his return to South Korea, Ackerman became the first person since the Korean War to cross the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). In addition, the Clinton Administration consulted with Ackerman in formulating its trade policies toward many Asian nations including China, Japan and Vietnam.
• Joseph Pitts [r]: Add brief definition or description Adviser, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, represents the 16th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. Throughout his tenure in Congress, he has been an advocate for oppressed people in places as far away as Turkmenistan and Western Sahara. He is a member of the Helsinki Commission—the arm of Congress that participates in the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, an international Human Rights group. He also belongs to the Human Rights Caucus and the International Relations Committee. In 1997, Congressman Pitts founded the Religious Prisoners Congressional Task Force to advocate for prisoners of conscience in countries like Sudan and China.
• Samantha Power [r]: Add brief definition or description Adviser, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University; former reporter for the U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and the Economist
• Mark Kirk [r]: Add brief definition or description a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, represents the 10th District of Illinois; Adviser, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; He serves on the Armed Services, Transportation & Infrastructure and Budget Committees. Kirk served as an officer on the World Bank's International Finance Corporation in 1990. He joined the State Department and worked on the Central American peace process as a Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for inter-American Affairs at the U.S. State Department from 1992-93. From 1993-95, Kirk practiced law with the international firm of Baker & MacKenzie where his field of expertise was international trade and finance. In 1995, Kirk joined the staff of the U.S. House International Relations Committee as Counsel serving under Chairman Ben Gilman (R-NY). Kirk was responsible for foreign assistance legislation, but also built on his record of drafting legislation that became law including: rewards for the capture of war criminals, expansion of the Peace Corps, creation of the Global Program on AIDS, and the first debt-for-nature swap. Kirk also conducted congressional missions to 42 countries, including Bosnia, Kosovo and North Korea.
• Helie Lee [r]: Add brief definition or description Adviser, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; author and member of the Asian American Writers Workshop, PEN
• John Shattuck [r]: Add brief definition or description Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library and Foundation; Adviser, U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea; Mr. Shattuck’s career spans nearly three decades in government service and the nonprofit sector. In 1993, Mr. Shattuck was appointed by President Clinton as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. For the work he did in this capacity, he received an International Human Rights Award from the United Nations Association of Boston in 1998. Also in 1998, he was appointed by the President as U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic. Before entering government service, Mr. Shattuck was at Harvard, where he held the position of Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs from 1984-1993, while also lecturing on civil liberties at the Harvard Law School and the Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Shattuck’s public service career began at the American Civil Liberties Union, where he was Executive Director of the ACLU Washington office and national staff counsel from 1971 to 1984. He was involved in all major civil rights and civil liberties issues during the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations, including the defense of federal civil rights legislation, protection of the federal courts against congressional efforts to limit their jurisdiction, and legislative expansion of the rights of women.

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