[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 543 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 543

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
  recent summit held by the Presidents of South Korea and North Korea.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 29, 2000

 Mr. Hastings of Florida submitted the following resolution; which was 
          referred to the Committee on International Relations

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding the 
  recent summit held by the Presidents of South Korea and North Korea.

Whereas on June 13, 2000, President Kim Dae-Jung of the Republic of Korea (South 
        Korea) and President Kim Jong-Il of the Democratic People's Republic of 
        Korea (North Korea) began a 3-day summit;
Whereas this summit marked the only official meeting between the two countries 
        since the end of hostilities in the Korean War in 1953;
Whereas this summit was designed to end nearly 50 years of conflict between the 
        two Koreas;
Whereas 10,218 United States soldiers in the Korean conflict are still listed as 
        missing in action or prisoners of war;
Whereas North Korea has unfairly withheld food supplies from its starving 
        population in order to fund its weapons of mass destruction programs and 
        has repeatedly placed its people in imminent danger and its country at 
        the brink of ruin;
Whereas North Korea continues to sell ballistic missiles to Pakistan, Libya, and 
        Iran; and
Whereas the stability of the Korean peninsula and the containment of weapons of 
        mass destruction are of utmost importance and concern to the United 
        States: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) congratulates the Presidents of South Korea and North 
        Korea for this first important step in bringing peace to the 
        Korean peninsula;
            (2) hopes this historic summit will foster the goodwill 
        necessary to end the hostilities between these two important 
        nations;
            (3) welcomes the change in attitude between the two nations 
        that technically are still at war;
            (4) awaits with great anticipation the resolution of the 
        issue of national unification of South Korea and North Korea;
            (5) anticipates the return of dispersed family members and 
        their relatives;
            (6) expects a full accounting by North Korea of all United 
        States soldiers in the Korean conflict who are still listed as 
        missing in action or prisoners of war;
            (7) hopes to secure from the North Korean leadership a 
        permanent moratorium on the flight testing of long-range 
        missiles; and
            (8) expects to witness an immediate freeze in North Korea's 
        nuclear program and a suspension of its ballistic missile 
        program.
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