| 1 | | - | Amended IN Senate May 30, 2018 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Joint Resolution No. 28Introduced by Senator StoneMay 22, 2018Relative to the North Korean release of American hostages. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSJR 28, as amended, Stone. North Korea: American hostages.This measure would recognize the work President Trump did to free three American hostages from North Korea.Digest Key Fiscal Committee: NO Bill TextWHEREAS, Three Americans detained and sentenced to hard labor camps by North Korea were freed in early May 2018; and WHEREAS, Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song are ethnic Koreans who are naturalized U.S. citizens; andWHEREAS, Each of the American detainees were doing humanitarian work near the border of China and North Korea before being detained; andWHEREAS, Each of these These individuals endured harsh conditions in North Korean labor camps, hoping and dreaming for his their release; and WHEREAS, Kim Sang-duk, also known as Tony Kim, is a 1990 graduate of the University of California, Riverside, with a masters degree in business administration; andWHEREAS, Mr. Kim works as a professor of accounting and business and has made multiple trips to North Korea to teach at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, the only privately funded university in North Korea; andWHEREAS, Kim Hak-song studied in California and gained his citizenship here in the early 2000s, after which he returned to China and to North Korea to teach agricultural development; andWHEREAS, Thanks to the efforts of President Donald Trump to bring North Korean officials to the table, North Korea has granted Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song their freedom and return to the United States; now, therefore, be itResolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature recognizes the work President Trump did to free the three American hostages from North Korea; and be it furtherResolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for distribution. |
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| 1 | + | CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20172018 REGULAR SESSION Senate Joint Resolution No. 28Introduced by Senator StoneMay 22, 2018 Relative to the North Korean release of American hostages. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTSJR 28, as introduced, Stone. North Korea: American hostages.This measure would recognize the work President Trump did to free three American hostages from North Korea.Digest Key Fiscal Committee: NO Bill TextWHEREAS, Three Americans detained and sentenced to hard labor camps by North Korea were freed in early May 2018; and WHEREAS, Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song are ethnic Koreans who are naturalized U.S. citizens; andWHEREAS, Each of the American detainees were doing humanitarian work near the border of China and North Korea before being detained; andWHEREAS, Each of these individuals endured harsh conditions in North Korean labor camps, hoping and dreaming for his release; and WHEREAS, Kim Sang-duk, also known as Tony Kim, is a 1990 graduate of the University of California, Riverside, with a masters degree in business administration; andWHEREAS, Mr. Kim works as a professor of accounting and business and has made multiple trips to North Korea to teach at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, the only privately funded university in North Korea; andWHEREAS, Thanks to the efforts of President Donald Trump to bring North Korean officials to the table, North Korea has granted Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song their freedom and return to the United States; now, therefore, be itResolved by the Senate and the Assembly of the State of California, jointly, That the Legislature recognizes the work President Trump did to free the three American hostages from North Korea; and be it furtherResolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the author for distribution. |
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