US congress urges gov to take actions including sanctions against “Hague violators”

This is an article related to September 10th congressional hearing titled "Holding Hague Convention Violators Accountable and Bringing Abducted American Children Home"

A few important part of the hearing was as follows:

(1) The panel reviewed which countries were cited as "Non-compliant" by the United States government. This included Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras and South Korea.

(2) David Robert Koepcke, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asia Pacific as one of the key witnesses testified that the main problems that causes Korea to violate the Hague convention was that the enforcement officers (bailiffs) do not listen to the court nor do they follow the instructions of the Korean central authority, leading to the failure of enforcement of the return orders made by the Korean government.

(3) A few congress members asked directly why Korea is not returning the children, these include Rep. Smith, Rep. Keating, Rep.Wild and Rep. Radewagen. Another witness by the name of Jeffery Morehouse (the leader of an NGO) called out Korea saying "their message is clear: Give up and go away" He also mentioned two American fathers, Jay Sung and Michael Fallon whose children were abducted to Korea.

(4) Congress urged "A whole-of-a-government" approach. Urging the State Department to take a more strict actions towards the countries that refuse to change their law and follow the international standards.