; Whereas experts estimate that the remains of more than 1,300,000 victims of execution are buried at the Killing Fields in Cambodia, representing only 60 percent of the full death toll of the Cambodian genocide; Whereas the Khmer Rouge brutally tortured and executed Stuart Glass of Canada, John Dewhirst of Great Britain, and Kerry Hamill of New Zealand after their boat strayed into Cambodian waters in 1978; Whereas the USSR lent the newly established communist regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba economic and diplomatic support to undermine the influence of the United States in the Western Hemisphere; Whereas the President of Cuba, Fidel Castro, ordered the executions of 582 supporters of the former Cuban government in 1959 following the overthrow of former President Fulgencio Batista; Whereas, under the authority of President Castro, between 4,000 and 17,000 individuals were executed by the infamous firing squads of the Cuban Communist Party; Whereas, in the 1960s and 1970s, homosexuals, clergy, and others who posed a threat to the regime of President Castro were rounded up and sent to labor camps for re-education; Whereas President Castro acknowledged holding up to 15,000 political prisoners in 1964; Whereas, under President Castro, the Cuban Communist Party refused access to Cuba to international monitors such as the International Committee of the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch; Whereas the Government of Cuba continues to heavily censor all media; Whereas the Government of Cuba continues to deny basic human rights, including freedom of expression, religion, association, and assembly; Whereas the USSR lent diplomatic and military support to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and its ruling party, the communist Worker’s Party of Korea (referred to in this preamble as the WPK ), shortly after the country was founded on September 9, 1948; Whereas, during the Korean War, the WPK caused the deaths of 36,914 Americans