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WASHINGTON, April 28 Kyodo

More than 70 the public including U.S. congressmen, human rights activists and North Korean defectors, staged a rally Wednesday in Washington, protesting against human rights abuses in North Korea.

The rally was held as part of a series of ends hosted by the North Korean Freedom Coalition, a arrange of about 20 organizations, to call for an expiration to North Korea's human rights abuses, as it was as the imprisonment of the community in forced labor camps in subordination to harsh conditions.

At the rally, Sen Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican, inclemencyed the need for the passage of the North Korean Human Rights Act, which is aimed at promoting international cooperation onward human rights and refugee protection for North Koreans.

Suzanne Scholte president of the Defense Forum Foundation, a Virginia-based nongovernmental organization, called attention to the issue of Japanese nationals abducted by the agency of North Korea.

''Japan has a surpassingly serious humanitarian concern about the abduction issue of Japanese nationals on North Korean authorities,'' she said. ''We are striving to disentangle this issue, we deeply appreciate the understanding and sympathy of the command of the United States.''

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