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North Korea’s Moral Challenge to President Biden

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North Korea’s Moral Challenge to President Biden
People walk up the stairs before a propaganda poster showing Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers at a museum in Sinchon, south of Pyongyang, North Korea, on July 29, 2017. North Korea said on July 30 its latest ICBM test was a "warning" targeting the United States for its efforts to slap new sanctions on Pyongyang and threatened a counter-strike if provoked militarily by Washington. Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images
Nina Shea
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China and Russia are demanding that the United States agree to lift U.N. economic sanctions against North Korea, which were put in place in 2006 to stop its nuclear weapons programs.

Nina Shea
Nina Shea
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Nina Shea is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute where she directs the Center for Religious Freedom. For twelve years, she served as a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. An international human-rights lawyer for over thirty years, Ms. Shea undertakes scholarship and recommends policies for the advancement of individual religious freedom and other human rights in U.S. foreign policy. She advocates extensively in defense of those persecuted for their religious beliefs and identities and on behalf of diplomatic measures to end religious repression and violence abroad, whether from state actors or extremist groups.
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