Does anyone believe the State Department cares one iota about North Korean human rights?:

The United States said on Tuesday that it will continue to press North Korea to improve its human rights record.

State Department spokesman Robert Wood told reporters that Special Representative for North Korea Policy Ambassador Stephen Bosworth on Monday met with a delegation of North Korean defectors and advocacy organizations as well as with families of Japanese nationals abducted by the North.

Wood said a range of U.S. officials will meet to discuss the human rights conditions in the communist state in conjunction with North Korea Freedom Week.

He said the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the North will be at the State Department for meetings on Wednesday.  [KBS Global]

All you have to do is read Ambassador Stephen Bosworth’s prior articles to see he mentions nothing about North Korean human rights and now we supposed to believe he does?

Here is someone that has showed he is willing to take action Senator Sam Brownback who is participating in North Korea Freedom Week that is taking place currently at Washington, DC:

A large-scale event denouncing North Korea’s repression of human rights has opened in Washington to mark North Korea Freedom Week.

Some 30 North Korean escapees, family members of Japanese abductees, four U.S. legislators and the South Korean government’s ambassador at large for human rights, Jhe Seong-ho, gathered in front of Congress Wednesday to voice criticism over the North’s human rights conditions.

Participants called for the abolition of political prison camps in the North and the swift release of two U.S. journalists that have been detained in the communist state for more than a month.

In particular, U.S. Senator Sam Brownback urged the Obama administration to come up with active policies to improve Pyongyang’s human rights situation, stressing the need to help the North Korean people and not its government.

This is the sixth, and largest, such event to be held. It will run through Saturday.  [KBS Global]

ROK Drop readers may remember that Senator Brownback was the man responsible for holding up Chris Hill’s confirmation as the US Ambassador to Iraq because of his destructive North Korea foreign policy initiatives that totally ignored the human rights disaster going on in that country plus just being a long time advocate of North Korean human rights causes.

There is a lot going on for North Korea Freedom Week which you can read more about over at One Free Korea.