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US ‘North Korea Separated Families Reunion Act’ Direct contact with North Korea ‘strengthened’

김종찬안보 2022. 12. 25. 12:46
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The United States enacted the “Reunion Act for Separated Families in North Korea,” strengthening direct contact between North Koreans and Korean Americans as the first legal relationship.

President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 on the 23rd and enacted the ‘North American Dispersed Family Reunion Act’ and the ‘Otto Warmbier North Korean Censorship and Surveillance Response Act’ enacted to reunite the families of about 100,000 Americans with relatives in North Korea. Legal guarantees backed by the US government have begun.

The bill stipulates that the US Secretary of State work with the South Korean government to come up with a plan for reunion of separated families, and that a special envoy for North Korean human rights meet with separated families at least twice a year.
About 100,000 Koreans with American citizenship have family members in North Korea, and for 70 years after the Korean War, all but unofficial visits were blocked.
The bill passed the Democratic-led House of Representatives after being introduced in 2019, but was automatically scrapped because it failed to pass the Senate under the Trump Republican system.
This bill, based on the Democratic Party's Biden administration's human rights-oriented policy, begins direct negotiations with North Korea as an attempt to strengthen the executive powers of the North Korean human rights special envoy.
The Biden administration grants the president the authority to sanction in response to information control in North Korea with the’Wombier North Korea Censorship Prevention Response Act’ and allocates the budget to the policy of increasing broadcasting to North Korea by providing additional budget support to avoid confrontation with North Korea’s censorship system. strengthened and foreshadowed frequent contact.
In December 2014, in the Obama administration of the Democratic Party of the United States, 'negotiations on immigration law' began following the 'spy exchange' in diplomatic negotiations with Cuba, which had been severed for 50 years.
The United States has induced Cuban asylum in Cuba, a communist country, with a system that recognizes “political asylum” for Cubans entering the United States regardless of their route through the “Immigration Act,” and Cuba has a country-to-country visa system based on “prohibition of asylum.” conversion as a precondition for negotiations.
Negotiations are expected to be attempted on the “exchange of spies” and “ban on asylum,” which were applied to Cuba against North Korea as part of the US “reunion law.”

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