David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The point is that I simply want a clear and unequivocal statement with respect to the North Korean regime: that the people are in poverty, that this is one of the poorest nations in the world with one of the largest standing armies in the world and it is allegedly detonating a nuclear weapon. I want to hear Senator Bob Brown say that he rejects all of that, not just the fact that there has been a detonation but that he rejects the Marxist principles that underlie this regime. If he does make that statement, that will be good for us because we will know where he stands, because his press releases to this point have been equivocal and they leave open the strong hint that he is an apologist for that regime.