Whereas the North Korean prison system, inasmuch as it applies to its many thousands of purely political prisoners, is widely understood to represent at once both a pinnacle of human suffering and a nadir of human rights, and
Whereas the North Korean government has shown itself to be well calcified against change from within and
Whereas the Republic of the United States of America still enjoys potency across many spectra of global influence
Therefore I petition the Administration, the Department of State and any and all mechanisms they command - including but not limited to soft power, indirect diplomacy and the Executive bully pulpit - to invite, cajole and pressure the government of North Korea to forge an honorable future for its people, free of the stain of the current gulag system.