[House Document 111-52]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




111th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 111-52
 
   CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO NORTH KOREA

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THEPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES

                              transmitting

NOTIFICATION STATING THAT THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY, DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE 
ORDER 13466 OF JUNE 26, 2008, IS TO CONTINUE IN EFFECT BEYOND JUNE 26, 
                  2009, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d)




    June 25, 2009.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the 
         Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed
To the Congress of the United States:
    Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 
1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national 
emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its 
declaration, the President publishes in the Federal Register 
and transmits to the Congress a notice stating that the 
emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. 
In accordance with this provision, I have sent to the Federal 
Register for publication the enclosed notice stating that the 
national emergency, declared in Executive Order 13466 of June 
26, 2008, is to continue in effect beyond June 26, 2009.
    The current existence and risk of the proliferation of 
weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula 
constitute a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
national security and foreign policy of the United States. For 
these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to 
continue the national emergency and maintain certain 
restrictions with respect to North Korea and North Korean 
nationals that would otherwise have been lifted in Proclamation 
8271 of June 26, 2008.
                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, June 24, 2009.
                                 Notice

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   Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to North Korea

    On June 26, 2008, by Executive Order 13466, the President 
declared a national emergency pursuant to the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) to deal 
with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national 
security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by 
the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-
usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula. The President 
also found that it was necessary to maintain certain 
restrictions with respect to North Korea that would otherwise 
have been lifted pursuant to Proclamation 8271 of June 26, 
2008, which terminated the exercise of authorities under 
Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 1-44) with respect 
to North Korea.
    Because the existence and risk of the proliferation of 
weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula 
continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the 
national security and foreign policy of the United States, the 
national emergency declared on June 26, 2008, and the measures 
adopted on that date to deal with that emergency, must continue 
in effect beyond June 26, 2009. Therefore, in accordance with 
section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 
1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency 
declared in Executive Order 13466.
    This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and 
transmitted to the Congress.
                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, June 24, 2009.

                                  
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