[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 18 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. CON. RES. 18

  Calling on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United 
  States to return to an interim level of compliance with the Agreed 
 Framework of 1994 while a more comprehensive and mutually acceptable 
           agreement can be negotiated by those two nations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 28, 2003

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

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Calling on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United 
  States to return to an interim level of compliance with the Agreed 
 Framework of 1994 while a more comprehensive and mutually acceptable 
           agreement can be negotiated by those two nations.

Whereas in the Agreed Framework between the Democratic People's Republic of 
        Korea (North Korea) and the United States, signed in Geneva on October 
        21, 1994, North Korea pledged to freeze its existing nuclear program and 
        allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to carry out 
        inspections designed to account for all its nuclear material and in 
        return, North Korea would be provided with two light-water reactors and 
        heavy fuel oil;
Whereas in the Agreed Framework, the United States pledged to organize, under 
        its leadership, an international consortium to finance and supply North 
        Korea with alternative sources of energy in the form of heavy fuel oil 
        and a modern nuclear power plant;
Whereas the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), an 
        international consortium, was created in 1995 to advance the 
        implementation of the Agreed Framework;
Whereas in October 2002, North Korea admitted that it had been operating a 
        covert nuclear weapons program;
Whereas in December 2002, the United States halted a shipment of heavy fuel oil 
        to North Korea;
Whereas in December 2002, North Korea expelled IAEA inspectors, disabled 
        surveillance cameras installed by the IAEA inspectors, and broke seals 
        barring entry to a plutonium reprocessing plant; and
Whereas the IAEA, an independent organization of the United Nations, has 
        initiated separate negotiations with North Korea to allow its inspectors 
        to return to the country: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Congress--
            (1) calls on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea 
        (North Korea), in an interim demonstration of good faith, to 
        allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to return 
        to North Korea, reinstall surveillance cameras, and reseal the 
        aforementioned plutonium reprocessing plant while a more 
        comprehensive and mutually acceptable agreement can be 
        negotiated with the United States;
            (2) calls on the United States, in an interim demonstration 
        of good faith, to resume monthly fuel oil shipments to North 
        Korea while a more comprehensive and mutually acceptable 
        agreement can be negotiated with that nation;
            (3) commends the IAEA for its efforts and calls on that 
        organization to continue its separate and independent 
        negotiations with North Korea to allow its inspectors to return 
        to the country;
            (4) calls on North Korea and the United States to 
        immediately begin diplomatic talks and negotiations until a 
        mutually acceptable binding treaty to resolve the current 
        crisis has been agreed to by both parties; and
            (5) calls on the members of the Korean Peninsula Energy 
        Development Organization (KEDO), and the Russian Federation, 
        the Republic of Korea, Australia, Canada, and other concerned 
        nations to support this interim solution and all diplomatic 
        attempts by the United States and North Korea to achieve a 
        peaceful resolution to the current crisis.
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