[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 26 (Friday, February 12, 2016)]
[House]
[Pages H779-H789]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS ENFORCEMENT ACT OF 2016

  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and concur in the 
Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 757) to improve the enforcement of 
sanctions against the Government of North Korea, and for other 
purposes.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The text of the Senate amendment is as follows:
  Senate amendment:

       Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

     SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

       (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``North 
     Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016''.
       (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act 
     is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings; purposes.
Sec. 3. Definitions.

       TITLE I--INVESTIGATIONS, PROHIBITED CONDUCT, AND PENALTIES

Sec. 101. Statement of policy.
Sec. 102. Investigations.
Sec. 103. Reporting requirements.
Sec. 104. Designation of persons.
Sec. 105. Forfeiture of property.

 TITLE II--SANCTIONS AGAINST NORTH KOREAN PROLIFERATION, HUMAN RIGHTS 
                     ABUSES, AND ILLICIT ACTIVITIES

Sec. 201. Determinations with respect to North Korea as a jurisdiction 
              of primary money laundering concern.
Sec. 202. Ensuring the consistent enforcement of United Nations 
              Security Council resolutions and financial restrictions 
              on North Korea.
Sec. 203. Proliferation prevention sanctions.
Sec. 204. Procurement sanctions.
Sec. 205. Enhanced inspection authorities.
Sec. 206. Travel sanctions.
Sec. 207. Travel recommendations for United States citizens to North 
              Korea.
Sec. 208. Exemptions, waivers, and removals of designation.
Sec. 209. Report on and imposition of sanctions to address persons 
              responsible for knowingly engaging in significant 
              activities undermining cybersecurity.
Sec. 210. Codification of sanctions with respect to North Korean 
              activities undermining cybersecurity.
Sec. 211. Sense of Congress on trilateral cooperation between the 
              United States, South Korea, and Japan.

                  TITLE III--PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Sec. 301. Information technology.
Sec. 302. Strategy to promote North Korean human rights.
Sec. 303. Report on North Korean prison camps.
Sec. 304. Report on and imposition of sanctions with respect to serious 
              human rights abuses or censorship in North Korea.

                     TITLE IV--GENERAL AUTHORITIES

Sec. 401. Suspension of sanctions and other measures.
Sec. 402. Termination of sanctions and other measures.
Sec. 403. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 404. Rulemaking.
Sec. 405. Authority to consolidate reports.
Sec. 406. Effective date.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS; PURPOSES.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) The Government of North Korea--
       (A) has repeatedly violated its commitments to the 
     complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement of its 
     nuclear weapons programs; and
       (B) has willfully violated multiple United Nations Security 
     Council resolutions calling for North Korea to cease 
     development, testing, and production of weapons of mass 
     destruction.
       (2) Based on its past actions, including the transfer of 
     sensitive nuclear and missile technology to state sponsors of 
     terrorism, North Korea poses a grave risk for the 
     proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass 
     destruction.
       (3) The Government of North Korea has been implicated 
     repeatedly in money laundering and other illicit activities, 
     including--
       (A) prohibited arms sales;
       (B) narcotics trafficking;
       (C) the counterfeiting of United States currency;
       (D) significant activities undermining cybersecurity; and
       (E) the counterfeiting of intellectual property of United 
     States persons.
       (4) North Korea has--
       (A) unilaterally withdrawn from the Agreement Concerning a 
     Military Armistice in Korea, signed at Panmunjom July 27, 
     1953 (commonly referred to as the ``Korean War Armistice 
     Agreement''); and
       (B) committed provocations against South Korea--
       (i) by sinking the warship Cheonan and killing 46 of her 
     crew on March 26, 2010;
       (ii) by shelling Yeonpyeong Island and killing 4 South 
     Korean civilians on November 23, 2010;
       (iii) by its involvement in the ``DarkSeoul'' cyberattacks 
     against the financial and communications interests of South 
     Korea on March 20, 2013; and
       (iv) by planting land mines near a guard post in the South 
     Korean portion of the demilitarized zone that maimed 2 South 
     Korean soldiers on August 4, 2015.
       (5) North Korea maintains a system of brutal political 
     prison camps that contain as many as 200,000 men, women, and 
     children, who are--
       (A) kept in atrocious living conditions with insufficient 
     food, clothing, and medical care; and
       (B) under constant fear of torture or arbitrary execution.
       (6) North Korea has prioritized weapons programs and the 
     procurement of luxury goods--
       (A) in defiance of United Nations Security Council 
     Resolutions 1695 (2006), 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 
     (2013), and 2094 (2013); and
       (B) in gross disregard of the needs of the people of North 
     Korea.
       (7) Persons, including financial institutions, who engage 
     in transactions with, or provide financial services to, the 
     Government of North Korea and its financial institutions 
     without establishing sufficient financial safeguards against 
     North Korea's use of such transactions to promote 
     proliferation, weapons trafficking, human rights violations, 
     illicit activity, and the purchase of luxury goods--
       (A) aid and abet North Korea's misuse of the international 
     financial system; and
       (B) violate the intent of the United Nations Security 
     Council resolutions referred to in paragraph (6)(A).
       (8) The Government of North Korea has provided technical 
     support and conducted destructive and coercive cyberattacks, 
     including against Sony Pictures Entertainment and other 
     United States persons.
       (9) The conduct of the Government of North Korea poses an 
     imminent threat to--
       (A) the security of the United States and its allies;
       (B) the global economy;
       (C) the safety of members of the United States Armed 
     Forces;
       (D) the integrity of the global financial system;
       (E) the integrity of global nonproliferation programs; and
       (F) the people of North Korea.
       (10) The Government of North Korea has sponsored acts of 
     international terrorism, including--

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       (A) attempts to assassinate defectors and human rights 
     activists; and
       (B) the shipment of weapons to terrorists and state 
     sponsors of terrorism.
       (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are--
       (1) to use nonmilitary means to address the crisis 
     described in subsection (a);
       (2) to provide diplomatic leverage to negotiate necessary 
     changes in the conduct of the Government of North Korea;
       (3) to ease the suffering of the people of North Korea; and
       (4) to reaffirm the purposes set forth in section 4 of the 
     North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7802).

     SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

       In this Act:
       (1) Applicable executive order.--The term ``applicable 
     Executive order'' means--
       (A) Executive Order 13382 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to 
     blocking property of weapons of mass destruction 
     proliferators and their supporters), Executive Order 13466 
     (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to continuing certain 
     restrictions with respect to North Korea and North Korean 
     nationals), Executive Order 13551 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
     relating to blocking property of certain persons with respect 
     to North Korea), Executive Order 13570 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
     relating to prohibiting certain transactions with respect to 
     North Korea), Executive Order 13619 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; 
     relating to blocking property of persons threatening the 
     peace, security, or stability of Burma), Executive Order 
     13687 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to imposing additional 
     sanctions with respect to North Korea), or Executive Order 
     13694 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to blocking the property 
     of certain persons engaging in significant malicious cyber-
     enabled activities), to the extent that such Executive 
     order--
       (i) authorizes the imposition of sanctions on persons for 
     conduct with respect to North Korea;
       (ii) prohibits transactions or activities involving the 
     Government of North Korea; or
       (iii) otherwise imposes sanctions with respect to North 
     Korea; and
       (B) any Executive order adopted on or after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, to the extent that such Executive 
     order--
       (i) authorizes the imposition of sanctions on persons for 
     conduct with respect to North Korea;
       (ii) prohibits transactions or activities involving the 
     Government of North Korea; or
       (iii) otherwise imposes sanctions with respect to North 
     Korea.
       (2) Applicable united nations security council 
     resolution.--The term ``applicable United Nations Security 
     Council resolution'' means--
       (A) United Nations Security Council Resolution 1695 (2006), 
     1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), or 2094 (2013); and
       (B) any United Nations Security Council resolution adopted 
     on or after the date of the enactment of this Act that--
       (i) authorizes the imposition of sanctions on persons for 
     conduct with respect to North Korea;
       (ii) prohibits transactions or activities involving the 
     Government of North Korea; or
       (iii) otherwise imposes sanctions with respect to North 
     Korea.
       (3) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
     ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
       (A) the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on 
     Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and
       (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
     Financial Services, and the Committee on Ways and Means of 
     the House of Representatives.
       (4) Designated person.--The term ``designated person'' 
     means a person designated under subsection (a) or (b) of 
     section 104 for purposes of applying 1 or more of the 
     sanctions described in title I or II with respect to the 
     person.
       (5) Government of north korea.--The term ``Government of 
     North Korea'' means the Government of North Korea and its 
     agencies, instrumentalities, and controlled entities.
       (6) Humanitarian assistance.--The term ``humanitarian 
     assistance'' means assistance to meet humanitarian needs, 
     including needs for food, medicine, medical supplies, 
     clothing, and shelter.
       (7) Intelligence community.--The term ``intelligence 
     community'' has the meaning given such term in section 3(4) 
     of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3003(4)).
       (8) Luxury goods.--The term ``luxury goods''--
       (A) has the meaning given such term in section 746.4(b)(1) 
     of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations; and
       (B) includes the items listed in Supplement No. 1 to part 
     746 of such title, and any similar items.
       (9) Monetary instruments.--The term ``monetary 
     instruments'' has the meaning given such term in section 
     5312(a) of title 31, United States Code.
       (10) North korea.--The term ``North Korea'' means the 
     Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
       (11) North korean financial institution.--The term ``North 
     Korean financial institution'' means any financial 
     institution that--
       (A) is organized under the laws of North Korea or any 
     jurisdiction within North Korea (including a foreign branch 
     of such an institution);
       (B) is located in North Korea, except for a financial 
     institution that is excluded by the President in accordance 
     with section 208(c);
       (C) is owned or controlled by the Government of North 
     Korea, regardless of location; or
       (D) is owned or controlled by a financial institution 
     described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C), regardless of 
     location.
       (12) Significant activities undermining cybersecurity.--The 
     term ``significant activities undermining cybersecurity'' 
     includes--
       (A) significant efforts to--
       (i) deny access to or degrade, disrupt, or destroy an 
     information and communications technology system or network; 
     or
       (ii) exfiltrate information from such a system or network 
     without authorization;
       (B) significant destructive malware attacks;
       (C) significant denial of service activities; and
       (D) such other significant activities described in 
     regulations promulgated to implement section 104.
       (13) South korea.--The term ``South Korea'' means the 
     Republic of Korea.
       (14) United states person.--The term ``United States 
     person'' means--
       (A) a United States citizen or an alien lawfully admitted 
     for permanent residence to the United States; or
       (B) an entity organized under the laws of the United States 
     or of any jurisdiction within the United States, including a 
     foreign branch of such an entity.

       TITLE I--INVESTIGATIONS, PROHIBITED CONDUCT, AND PENALTIES

     SEC. 101. STATEMENT OF POLICY.

       In order to achieve the peaceful disarmament of North 
     Korea, Congress finds that it is necessary--
       (1) to encourage all member states of the United Nations to 
     fully and promptly implement United Nations Security Council 
     Resolution 2094 (2013);
       (2) to sanction the persons, including financial 
     institutions, that facilitate proliferation, illicit 
     activities, arms trafficking, cyberterrorism, imports of 
     luxury goods, serious human rights abuses, cash smuggling, 
     and censorship by the Government of North Korea;
       (3) to authorize the President to sanction persons who fail 
     to exercise due diligence to ensure that such financial 
     institutions and member states do not facilitate 
     proliferation, arms trafficking, kleptocracy, or imports of 
     luxury goods by the Government of North Korea;
       (4) to deny the Government of North Korea access to the 
     funds it uses to develop or obtain nuclear weapons, ballistic 
     missiles, cyberwarfare capabilities, and luxury goods instead 
     of providing for the needs of the people of North Korea; and
       (5) to enforce sanctions in a manner that does not 
     significantly hinder or delay the efforts of legitimate 
     United States or foreign humanitarian organizations from 
     providing assistance to meet the needs of civilians facing 
     humanitarian crisis, including access to food, health care, 
     shelter, and clean drinking water, to prevent or alleviate 
     human suffering.

     SEC. 102. INVESTIGATIONS.

       (a) Initiation.--The President shall initiate an 
     investigation into the possible designation of a person under 
     section 104(a) upon receipt by the President of credible 
     information indicating that such person has engaged in 
     conduct described in section 104(a).
       (b) Personnel.--The President may direct the Secretary of 
     State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the heads of other 
     Federal departments and agencies as may be necessary to 
     assign sufficient experienced and qualified investigators, 
     attorneys, and technical personnel--
       (1) to investigate the conduct described in subsections (a) 
     and (b) of section 104; and
       (2) to coordinate and ensure the effective enforcement of 
     this Act.

     SEC. 103. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Presidential Briefings to Congress.--Not later than 180 
     days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and 
     periodically thereafter, the President shall provide a 
     briefing to the appropriate congressional committees on 
     efforts to implement this Act.
       (b) Report From Secretary of State.--Not later than 180 
     days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
     Secretary of State shall conduct, coordinate, and submit to 
     Congress a comprehensive report on United States policy 
     towards North Korea that--
       (1) is based on a full and complete interagency review of 
     current policies and possible alternatives, including with 
     respect to North Korea's weapons of mass destruction and 
     missile programs, human rights atrocities, and significant 
     activities undermining cybersecurity; and
       (2) includes recommendations for such legislative or 
     administrative action as the Secretary considers appropriate 
     based on the results of the review.

     SEC. 104. DESIGNATION OF PERSONS.

       (a) Mandatory Designations.--Except as provided in section 
     208, the President shall designate under this subsection any 
     person that the President determines--
       (1) knowingly, directly or indirectly, imports, exports, or 
     reexports to, into, or from North Korea any goods, services, 
     or technology controlled for export by the United States 
     because of the use of such goods, services, or technology for 
     weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems for such 
     weapons and materially contributes to the use, development, 
     production, possession, or acquisition by any person of a 
     nuclear, radiological, chemical, or biological weapon or any 
     device or system designed in whole or in part to deliver such 
     a weapon;
       (2) knowingly, directly or indirectly, provides training, 
     advice, or other services or assistance, or engages in 
     significant financial transactions, relating to the 
     manufacture, maintenance, or use of any such weapon, device, 
     or system to be imported, exported, or reexported to, into, 
     or from North Korea;
       (3) knowingly, directly or indirectly, imports, exports, or 
     reexports luxury goods to or into North Korea;

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       (4) knowingly engages in, is responsible for, or 
     facilitates censorship by the Government of North Korea;
       (5) knowingly engages in, is responsible for, or 
     facilitates serious human rights abuses by the Government of 
     North Korea;
       (6) knowingly, directly or indirectly, engages in money 
     laundering, the counterfeiting of goods or currency, bulk 
     cash smuggling, or narcotics trafficking that supports the 
     Government of North Korea or any senior official or person 
     acting for or on behalf of that Government;
       (7) knowingly engages in significant activities undermining 
     cybersecurity through the use of computer networks or systems 
     against foreign persons, governments, or other entities on 
     behalf of the Government of North Korea;
       (8) knowingly, directly or indirectly, sells, supplies, or 
     transfers to or from the Government of North Korea or any 
     person acting for or on behalf of that Government, a 
     significant amount of precious metal, graphite, raw or semi-
     finished metals or aluminum, steel, coal, or software, for 
     use by or in industrial processes directly related to weapons 
     of mass destruction and delivery systems for such weapons, 
     other proliferation activities, the Korean Workers' Party, 
     armed forces, internal security, or intelligence activities, 
     or the operation and maintenance of political prison camps or 
     forced labor camps, including outside of North Korea;
       (9) knowingly, directly or indirectly, imports, exports, or 
     reexports to, into, or from North Korea any arms or related 
     materiel; or
       (10) knowingly attempts to engage in any of the conduct 
     described in paragraphs (1) through (9).
       (b) Additional Discretionary Designations.--
       (1) Prohibited conduct described.--Except as provided in 
     section 208, the President may designate under this 
     subsection any person that the President determines--
       (A) knowingly engages in, contributes to, assists, 
     sponsors, or provides financial, material or technological 
     support for, or goods and services in support of, any person 
     designated pursuant to an applicable United Nations Security 
     Council resolution;
       (B) knowingly contributed to--
       (i) the bribery of an official of the Government of North 
     Korea or any person acting for on behalf of that official;
       (ii) the misappropriation, theft, or embezzlement of public 
     funds by, or for the benefit of, an official of the 
     Government of North Korea or any person acting for or on 
     behalf of that official; or
       (iii) the use of any proceeds of any activity described in 
     clause (i) or (ii); or
       (C) knowingly and materially assisted, sponsored, or 
     provided significant financial, material, or technological 
     support for, or goods or services to or in support of, the 
     activities described in subparagraph (A) or (B).
       (2) Effect of designation.--With respect to any person 
     designated under this subsection, the President may--
       (A) apply the sanctions described in section 204, 205(c), 
     or 206 to the person to the same extent and in the same 
     manner as if the person were designated under subsection (a);
       (B) apply any applicable special measures described in 
     section 5318A of title 31, United States Code;
       (C) prohibit any transactions in foreign exchange--
       (i) that are subject to the jurisdiction of the United 
     States; and
       (ii) in which such person has any interest; and
       (D) prohibit any transfers of credit or payments between 
     financial institutions or by, through, or to any financial 
     institution, to the extent that such transfers or payments--
       (i) are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; 
     and
       (ii) involve any interest of such person.
       (c) Asset Blocking.--The President shall exercise all of 
     the powers granted to the President under the International 
     Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the 
     extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in 
     property and interests in property of a designated person, 
     the Government of North Korea, or the Workers' Party of 
     Korea, if such property and interests in property are in the 
     United States, come within the United States, or are or come 
     within the possession or control of a United States person.
       (d) Application to Subsidiaries and Agents.--The 
     designation of a person under subsection (a) or (b) and the 
     blocking of property and interests in property under 
     subsection (c) shall apply with respect to a person who is 
     determined to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or 
     purported to have acted for or on behalf of, directly or 
     indirectly, any person whose property and interests in 
     property are blocked pursuant to this section.
       (e) Transaction Licensing.--The President shall deny or 
     revoke any license for any transaction that the President 
     determines to lack sufficient financial controls to ensure 
     that such transaction will not facilitate any activity 
     described in subsection (a) or (b).
       (f) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in subsections 
     (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency 
     Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to any 
     person who violates, attempts to violate, conspires to 
     violate, or causes a violation of any prohibition of this 
     section, or an order or regulation prescribed under this 
     section, to the same extent that such penalties apply to a 
     person that commits an unlawful act described in section 
     206(a) of such Act (50 U.S.C. 1705(a)).

     SEC. 105. FORFEITURE OF PROPERTY.

       (a) Amendment to Property Subject to Forfeiture.--Section 
     981(a)(1) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(I) Any property, real or personal, that is involved in a 
     violation or attempted violation, or which constitutes or is 
     derived from proceeds traceable to a prohibition imposed 
     pursuant to section 104(a) of the North Korea Sanctions and 
     Policy Enhancement Act of 2016.''.
       (b) Amendment to Definition of Civil Forfeiture Statute.--
     Section 983(i)(2)(D) of title 18, United States Code, is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(D) the Trading with the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. 4301 et 
     seq.), the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
     U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), or the North Korea Sanctions 
     Enforcement Act of 2016; or''.
       (c) Amendment to Definition of Specified Unlawful 
     Activity.--Section 1956(c)(7)(D) of title 18, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``or section 92 of'' and inserting 
     ``section 92 of''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following: ``, or section 
     104(a) of the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2016 
     (relating to prohibited activities with respect to North 
     Korea);''.

 TITLE II--SANCTIONS AGAINST NORTH KOREAN PROLIFERATION, HUMAN RIGHTS 
                     ABUSES, AND ILLICIT ACTIVITIES

     SEC. 201. DETERMINATIONS WITH RESPECT TO NORTH KOREA AS A 
                   JURISDICTION OF PRIMARY MONEY LAUNDERING 
                   CONCERN.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and 
     Financial Intelligence, who is responsible for safeguarding 
     the financial system against illicit use, money laundering, 
     terrorist financing, and the proliferation of weapons of mass 
     destruction, and has repeatedly expressed concern about North 
     Korea's misuse of the international financial system--
       (A) in 2006--
       (i) stated, ``Given [North Korea's] counterfeiting of U.S. 
     currency, narcotics trafficking and use of accounts world-
     wide to conduct proliferation-related transactions, the line 
     between illicit and licit North Korean money is nearly 
     invisible.''; and
       (ii) urged financial institutions worldwide to ``think 
     carefully about the risks of doing any North Korea-related 
     business'';
       (B) in 2011, stated that North Korea--
       (i) ``remains intent on engaging in proliferation, selling 
     arms as well as bringing in material''; and
       (ii) was ``aggressively pursuing the effort to establish 
     front companies.''; and
       (C) in 2013, stated--
       (i) in reference to North Korea's distribution of high-
     quality counterfeit United States currency, that ``North 
     Korea is continuing to try to pass a supernote into the 
     international financial system''; and
       (ii) the Department of the Treasury would soon introduce 
     new currency with improved security features to protect 
     against counterfeiting by the Government of North Korea.
       (2) The Financial Action Task Force, an intergovernmental 
     body whose purpose is to develop and promote national and 
     international policies to combat money laundering and 
     terrorist financing, has repeatedly--
       (A) expressed concern at deficiencies in North Korea's 
     regimes to combat money laundering and terrorist financing;
       (B) urged North Korea to adopt a plan of action to address 
     significant deficiencies in those regimes and the serious 
     threat those deficiencies pose to the integrity of the 
     international financial system;
       (C) urged all jurisdictions to apply countermeasures to 
     protect the international financial system from ongoing and 
     substantial money laundering and terrorist financing risks 
     emanating from North Korea;
       (D) urged all jurisdictions to advise their financial 
     institutions to give special attention to business 
     relationships and transactions with North Korea, including 
     North Korean companies and financial institutions; and
       (E) called on all jurisdictions--
       (i) to protect against correspondent relationships being 
     used to bypass or evade countermeasures and risk mitigation 
     practices; and
       (ii) to take into account money laundering and terrorist 
     financing risks when considering requests by North Korean 
     financial institutions to open branches and subsidiaries in 
     their respective jurisdictions.
       (3) On March 7, 2013, the United Nations Security Council 
     unanimously adopted Resolution 2094, which--
       (A) welcomed the Financial Action Task Force's--
       (i) recommendation on financial sanctions related to 
     proliferation; and
       (ii) guidance on the implementation of such sanctions;
       (B) decided that United Nations member states should apply 
     enhanced monitoring and other legal measures to prevent the 
     provision of financial services or the transfer of property 
     that could contribute to activities prohibited by applicable 
     United Nations Security Council resolutions; and
       (C) called upon United Nations member states to prohibit 
     North Korean financial institutions from establishing or 
     maintaining correspondent relationships with financial 
     institutions in their respective jurisdictions to prevent the 
     provision of financial services if such member states have 
     information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that 
     such activities could contribute to--
       (i) activities prohibited by an applicable United Nations 
     Security Council resolution; or
       (ii) the evasion of such prohibitions.
       (b) Sense of Congress Regarding the Designation of North 
     Korea as a Jurisdiction of Primary Money Laundering 
     Concern.--Congress--

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       (1) acknowledges the efforts of the United Nations Security 
     Council to impose limitations on, and to require the enhanced 
     monitoring of, transactions involving North Korean financial 
     institutions that could contribute to sanctioned activities;
       (2) urges the President, in the strongest terms--
       (A) to immediately designate North Korea as a jurisdiction 
     of primary money laundering concern; and
       (B) to adopt stringent special measures to safeguard the 
     financial system against the risks posed by North Korea's 
     willful evasion of sanctions and its illicit activities; and
       (3) urges the President to seek the prompt implementation 
     by other countries of enhanced monitoring and due diligence 
     to prevent North Korea's misuse of the international 
     financial system, including by sharing information about 
     activities, transactions, and property that could contribute 
     to--
       (A) activities sanctioned by applicable United Nations 
     Security Council resolutions; or
       (B) the evasion of such sanctions.
       (c) Determinations Regarding North Korea.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, in 
     consultation with the Secretary of State and the Attorney 
     General, and in accordance with section 5318A of title 31, 
     United States Code, shall determine whether reasonable 
     grounds exist for concluding that North Korea is a 
     jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern.
       (2) Enhanced due diligence and reporting requirements.--If 
     the Secretary of the Treasury determines under paragraph (1) 
     that reasonable grounds exist for concluding that North Korea 
     is a jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern, the 
     Secretary, in consultation with the Federal functional 
     regulators (as defined in section 509 of the Gramm-Leach-
     Bliley Act (15 U.S.C. 6809)), shall impose 1 or more of the 
     special measures described in section 5318A(b) of title 31, 
     United States Code, with respect to the jurisdiction of North 
     Korea.
       (3) Report required.--
       (A) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date on 
     which the Secretary of the Treasury makes a determination 
     under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report that contains 
     the reasons for such determination.
       (B) Form.--The report submitted under subparagraph (A) 
     shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.

     SEC. 202. ENSURING THE CONSISTENT ENFORCEMENT OF UNITED 
                   NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS AND 
                   FINANCIAL RESTRICTIONS ON NORTH KOREA.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) All member states of the United Nations are obligated 
     to implement and enforce applicable United Nations Security 
     Council resolutions fully and promptly, including by blocking 
     the property of, and ensuring that any property is prevented 
     from being made available to, persons designated for the 
     blocking of property by the Security Council under applicable 
     United Nations Security Council resolutions.
       (2) As of May 2015, 158 of the 193 member states of the 
     United Nations had not submitted reports on measures taken to 
     implement North Korea-specific United Nations Security 
     Council resolutions 1718, 1874, and 2094.
       (3) A recent report by the Government Accountability Office 
     (GAO-15-485)--
       (A) finds that officials of the United States and 
     representatives of the United Nations Panel of Experts 
     established pursuant to United Nations Security Council 
     Resolution 1874 (2009), which monitors and facilitates 
     implementation of United Nations sanctions on North Korea, 
     ``agree that the lack of detailed reports from all member 
     states is an impediment to the UN's effective implementation 
     of its sanctions''; and
       (B) notes that ``many member states lack the technical 
     capacity to enforce sanctions and prepare reports'' on the 
     implementation of United Nations sanctions on North Korea.
       (4) All member states share a common interest in protecting 
     the international financial system from the risks of money 
     laundering and illicit transactions emanating from North 
     Korea.
       (5) The United States dollar and the euro are the world's 
     principal reserve currencies, and the United States and the 
     European Union are primarily responsible for the protection 
     of the international financial system from the risks 
     described in paragraph (4).
       (6) The cooperation of the People's Republic of China, as 
     North Korea's principal trading partner, is essential to--
       (A) the enforcement of applicable United Nations Security 
     Council resolutions; and
       (B) the protection of the international financial system.
       (7) The report of the Panel of Experts expressed concern 
     about the ability of banks to detect and prevent illicit 
     transfers involving North Korea if such banks are located in 
     member states with less effective regulators or member states 
     that are unable to afford effective compliance.
       (8) North Korea has historically exploited inconsistencies 
     between jurisdictions in the interpretation and enforcement 
     of financial regulations and applicable United Nations 
     Security Council resolutions to circumvent sanctions and 
     launder the proceeds of illicit activities.
       (9) Amroggang Development Bank, Bank of East Land, and 
     Tanchon Commercial Bank have been designated by the Secretary 
     of the Treasury, the United Nations Security Council, and the 
     European Union as having materially contributed to the 
     proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
       (10) Korea Daesong Bank and Korea Kwangson Banking 
     Corporation have been designated by the Secretary of the 
     Treasury and the European Union as having materially 
     contributed to the proliferation of weapons of mass 
     destruction.
       (11) The Foreign Trade Bank of North Korea has been 
     designated by the Secretary of the Treasury for facilitating 
     transactions on behalf of persons linked to its proliferation 
     network and for serving as ``a key financial node''.
       (12) Daedong Credit Bank has been designated by the 
     Secretary of the Treasury for activities prohibited by 
     applicable United Nations Security Council resolutions, 
     including the use of deceptive financial practices to 
     facilitate transactions on behalf of persons linked to North 
     Korea's proliferation network.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the President should intensify diplomatic efforts in 
     appropriate international fora, such as the United Nations, 
     and bilaterally, to develop and implement a coordinated, 
     consistent, multilateral strategy for protecting the global 
     financial system against risks emanating from North Korea, 
     including--
       (1) the cessation of any financial services the 
     continuation of which is inconsistent with applicable United 
     Nations Security Council resolutions;
       (2) the cessation of any financial services to persons, 
     including financial institutions, that present unacceptable 
     risks of facilitating money laundering and illicit activity 
     by the Government of North Korea;
       (3) the blocking by all member states, in accordance with 
     the legal process of the state in which the property is held, 
     of any property required to be blocked under applicable 
     United Nations Security Council resolutions;
       (4) the blocking of any property derived from illicit 
     activity, or from the misappropriation, theft, or 
     embezzlement of public funds by, or for the benefit of, 
     officials of the Government of North Korea;
       (5) the blocking of any property involved in significant 
     activities undermining cybersecurity by the Government of 
     North Korea, directly or indirectly, against United States 
     persons, or the theft of intellectual property by the 
     Government of North Korea, directly or indirectly from United 
     States persons; and
       (6) the blocking of any property of persons directly or 
     indirectly involved in censorship or human rights abuses by 
     the Government of North Korea.
       (c) Strategy to Improve International Implementation and 
     Enforcement of United Nations North Korea-specific 
     Sanctions.--The President shall direct the Secretary of 
     State, in coordination with other Federal departments and 
     agencies, as appropriate, to develop a strategy to improve 
     international implementation and enforcement of United 
     Nations North Korea-specific sanctions. The strategy should 
     include elements--
       (1) to increase the number of countries submitting reports 
     to the United Nations Panel of Experts established pursuant 
     to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874 (2009), 
     including developing a list of targeted countries where 
     effective implementation and enforcement of United Nations 
     sanctions would reduce the threat from North Korea;
       (2) to encourage member states of the United Nations to 
     cooperate and share information with the panel in order to 
     help facilitate investigations;
       (3) to expand cooperation with the Panel of Experts;
       (4) to provide technical assistance to member states to 
     implement United Nations sanctions, including developing the 
     capacity to enforce sanctions through improved export control 
     regulations, border security, and customs systems;
       (5) to harness existing United States Government 
     initiatives and assistance programs, as appropriate, to 
     improve sanctions implementation and enforcement; and
       (6) to increase outreach to the people of North Korea, and 
     to support the engagement of independent, non-governmental 
     journalistic, humanitarian, and other institutions in North 
     Korea.
       (d) Report Required.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
     of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the 
     Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a report that describes the actions 
     undertaken to implement the strategy required by subsection 
     (c).

     SEC. 203. PROLIFERATION PREVENTION SANCTIONS.

       (a) Export of Certain Goods or Technology.--A validated 
     license shall be required for the export to North Korea of 
     any goods or technology otherwise covered under section 6(j) 
     of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 4605(j)). 
     No defense exports may be approved for the Government of 
     North Korea.
       (b) Transactions in Lethal Military Equipment.--
       (1) In general.--The President shall withhold assistance 
     under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et 
     seq.) to the government of any country that provides lethal 
     military equipment to the Government of North Korea.
       (2) Applicability.--The prohibition under paragraph (1) 
     with respect to a government shall terminate on the date that 
     is 1 year after the date on which the prohibition under 
     paragraph (1) is applied to that government.
       (c) Waiver.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
     the Secretary of State may waive the prohibitions under this 
     section with respect to a country if the Secretary--
       (1) determines that such waiver is in the national interest 
     of the United States; and
       (2) submits a written report to the appropriate 
     congressional committees that describes--
       (A) the steps that the relevant agencies are taking to 
     curtail the trade described in subsection (b)(1); and

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       (B) why such waiver is in the national interest of the 
     United States.
       (d) Exception.--The prohibitions under this section shall 
     not apply to the provision of assistance for human rights, 
     democracy, rule of law, or emergency humanitarian purposes.

     SEC. 204. PROCUREMENT SANCTIONS.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in this section, the 
     head of an executive agency may not procure, or enter into 
     any contract for the procurement of, any goods or services 
     from any person designated under section 104(a).
       (b) Federal Acquisition Regulation.--
       (1) In general.--The Federal Acquisition Regulation issued 
     pursuant to section 1303(a)(1) of title 41, United States 
     Code, shall be revised to require that each person that is a 
     prospective contractor submit a certification that such 
     person does not engage in any activity described in section 
     104(a).
       (2) Applicability.--The revision required under paragraph 
     (1) shall apply with respect to contracts for which 
     solicitations are issued on or after the date that is 90 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (c) Remedies.--
       (1) Inclusion on list.--The Administrator of General 
     Services shall include, on the List of Parties Excluded from 
     Federal Procurement and Nonprocurement Programs maintained by 
     the Administrator under part 9 of the Federal Acquisition 
     Regulation, each person that is debarred, suspended, or 
     proposed for debarment or suspension by the head of an 
     executive agency on the basis of a determination of a false 
     certification under subsection (b).
       (2) Contract termination; suspension.--If the head of an 
     executive agency determines that a person has submitted a 
     false certification under subsection (b) after the date on 
     which the Federal Acquisition Regulation is revised to 
     implement the requirements of this section, the head of such 
     executive agency shall--
       (A) terminate any contract with such person; and
       (B) debar or suspend such person from eligibility for 
     Federal contracts for a period of not longer than 2 years.
       (3) Applicable procedures.--Any debarment or suspension 
     under paragraph (2)(B) shall be subject to the procedures 
     that apply to debarment and suspension under subpart 9.4 of 
     the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
       (d) Clarification Regarding Certain Products.--The remedies 
     specified in subsection (c) shall not apply with respect to 
     the procurement of any eligible product (as defined in 
     section 308(4) of the Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 
     2518(4)) of any foreign country or instrumentality designated 
     under section 301(b) of such Act (19 U.S.C. 2511(b)).
       (e) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this subsection may 
     be construed to limit the use of other remedies available to 
     the head of an executive agency or any other official of the 
     Federal Government on the basis of a determination of a false 
     certification under subsection (b).
       (f) Executive Agency Defined.--In this section, the term 
     ``executive agency'' has the meaning given such term in 
     section 133 of title 41, United States Code.

     SEC. 205. ENHANCED INSPECTION AUTHORITIES.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, 
     the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
     committees a report that identifies foreign ports and 
     airports at which inspections of ships, aircraft, and 
     conveyances originating in North Korea, carrying North Korean 
     property, or operated by the Government of North Korea are 
     not sufficient to effectively prevent the facilitation of any 
     of the activities described in section 104(a).
       (b) Enhanced Customs Inspection Requirements.--The 
     Secretary of Homeland Security may require enhanced 
     inspections of any goods entering the United States that have 
     been transported through a port or airport identified by the 
     President under subsection (a).
       (c) Seizure and Forfeiture.--A vessel, aircraft, or 
     conveyance used to facilitate any of the activities described 
     in section 104(a) under the jurisdiction of the United States 
     may be seized and forfeited under--
       (1) chapter 46 of title 18, United States Code; or
       (2) title V of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1501 et 
     seq.).

     SEC. 206. TRAVEL SANCTIONS.

       The Secretary of State may deny a visa to, and the 
     Secretary of Homeland Security may deny entry into the United 
     States of, any alien who is--
       (1) a designated person;
       (2) a corporate officer of a designated person; or
       (3) a principal shareholder with a controlling interest in 
     a designated person.

     SEC. 207. TRAVEL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR UNITED STATES CITIZENS 
                   TO NORTH KOREA.

       The Secretary of State shall expand the scope and frequency 
     of issuance of travel warnings for all United States citizens 
     to North Korea. The expanded travel warnings, which should be 
     issued or updated not less frequently than every 90 days, 
     should include--
       (1) publicly released or credible open source information 
     regarding the detention of United States citizens by North 
     Korean authorities, including available information on 
     circumstances of arrest and detention, duration, legal 
     proceedings, and conditions under which a United States 
     citizen has been, or continues to be, detained by North 
     Korean authorities, including present-day cases and cases 
     occurring during the 10-year period ending on the date of the 
     enactment of this Act;
       (2) publicly released or credible open source information 
     on the past and present detention and abduction or alleged 
     abduction of citizens of the United States, South Korea, or 
     Japan by North Korean authorities;
       (3) unclassified information about the nature of the North 
     Korean regime, as described in congressionally mandated 
     reports and annual reports issued by the Department of State 
     and the United Nations, including information about North 
     Korea's weapons of mass destruction programs, illicit 
     activities, international sanctions violations, and human 
     rights situation; and
       (4) any other information that the Secretary deems useful 
     to provide United States citizens with a comprehensive 
     picture of the nature of the North Korean regime.

     SEC. 208. EXEMPTIONS, WAIVERS, AND REMOVALS OF DESIGNATION.

       (a) Exemptions.--The following activities shall be exempt 
     from sanctions under sections 104, 206, 209, and 304:
       (1) Activities subject to the reporting requirements under 
     title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3091 
     et seq.), or to any authorized intelligence activities of the 
     United States.
       (2) Any transaction necessary to comply with United States 
     obligations under the Agreement between the United Nations 
     and the United States of America regarding the Headquarters 
     of the United Nations, signed at Lake Success June 26, 1947, 
     and entered into force November 21, 1947, or under the 
     Convention on Consular Relations, done at Vienna April 24, 
     1963, and entered into force March 19, 1967, or under other 
     international agreements.
       (3) Any activities incidental to the POW/MIA accounting 
     mission in North Korea, including activities by the Defense 
     POW/MIA Accounting Agency and other governmental or 
     nongovernmental organizations tasked with identifying or 
     recovering the remains of members of the United States Armed 
     Forces in North Korea.
       (b) Humanitarian Waiver.--
       (1) In general.--The President may waive, for renewable 
     periods of between 30 days and 1 year, the application of the 
     sanctions authorized under section 104, 204, 205, 206, 
     209(b), or 304(b) if the President submits to the appropriate 
     congressional committees a written determination that the 
     waiver is necessary for humanitarian assistance or to carry 
     out the humanitarian purposes set forth section 4 of the 
     North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7802).
       (2) Content of written determination.--A written 
     determination submitted under paragraph (1) with respect to a 
     waiver shall include a description of all notification and 
     accountability controls that have been employed in order to 
     ensure that the activities covered by the waiver are 
     humanitarian assistance or are carried out for the purposes 
     set forth in section 4 of the North Korean Human Rights Act 
     of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7802) and do not entail any activities in 
     North Korea or dealings with the Government of North Korea 
     not reasonably related to humanitarian assistance or such 
     purposes.
       (3) Clarification of permitted activities under waiver.--An 
     internationally recognized humanitarian organization shall 
     not be subject to sanctions under section 104, 204, 205, 206, 
     209(b), or 304(b) for--
       (A) engaging in a financial transaction relating to 
     humanitarian assistance or for humanitarian purposes pursuant 
     to a waiver issued under paragraph (1);
       (B) transporting goods or services that are necessary to 
     carry out operations relating to humanitarian assistance or 
     humanitarian purposes pursuant to such a waiver; or
       (C) having merely incidental contact, in the course of 
     providing humanitarian assistance or aid for humanitarian 
     purposes pursuant to such a waiver, with individuals who are 
     under the control of a foreign person subject to sanctions 
     under this Act.
       (c) Waiver.--The President may waive, on a case-by-case 
     basis, for renewable periods of between 30 days and 1 year, 
     the application of the sanctions authorized under section 
     104, 201(c)(2), 204, 205, 206, 209(b), or 304(b) if the 
     President submits to the appropriate congressional committees 
     a written determination that the waiver--
       (1) is important to the national security interests of the 
     United States; or
       (2) will further the enforcement of this Act or is for an 
     important law enforcement purpose.
       (d) Financial Services for Humanitarian and Consular 
     Activities.--The President may promulgate such regulations, 
     rules, and policies as may be necessary to facilitate the 
     provision of financial services by a foreign financial 
     institution that is not a North Korean financial institution 
     in support of activities conducted pursuant to an exemption 
     or waiver under this section.

     SEC. 209. REPORT ON AND IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS TO ADDRESS 
                   PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR KNOWINGLY ENGAGING IN 
                   SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES UNDERMINING 
                   CYBERSECURITY.

       (a) Report Required.--
       (1) In general.--The President shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report that describes 
     significant activities undermining cybersecurity aimed 
     against the United States Government or any United States 
     person and conducted by the Government of North Korea, or a 
     person owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the 
     Government of North Korea or any person acting for or on 
     behalf of that Government.
       (2) Information.--The report required under paragraph (1) 
     shall include--
       (A) the identity and nationality of persons that have 
     knowingly engaged in, directed, or provided material support 
     to conduct significant activities undermining cybersecurity 
     described in paragraph (1);
       (B) a description of the conduct engaged in by each person 
     identified;
       (C) an assessment of the extent to which a foreign 
     government has provided material support

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     to the Government of North Korea or any person acting for or 
     on behalf of that Government to conduct significant 
     activities undermining cybersecurity; and
       (D) a United States strategy to counter North Korea's 
     efforts to conduct significant activities undermining 
     cybersecurity against the United States, that includes 
     efforts to engage foreign governments to halt the capability 
     of the Government of North Korea and persons acting for or on 
     behalf of that Government to conduct significant activities 
     undermining cybersecurity.
       (3) Submission and form.--
       (A) Submission.--The report required under paragraph (1) 
     shall be submitted not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter.
       (B) Form.--The report required under paragraph (1) shall be 
     submitted in an unclassified form, but may include a 
     classified annex.
       (b) Designation of Persons.--The President shall designate 
     under section 104(a) any person identified in the report 
     required under subsection (a)(1) that knowingly engages in 
     significant activities undermining cybersecurity through the 
     use of computer networks or systems against foreign persons, 
     governments, or other entities on behalf of the Government of 
     North Korea.

     SEC. 210. CODIFICATION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT TO NORTH 
                   KOREAN ACTIVITIES UNDERMINING CYBERSECURITY.

       (a) In General.--United States sanctions with respect to 
     activities of the Government of North Korea, persons acting 
     for or on behalf of that Government, or persons located in 
     North Korea that undermine cybersecurity provided for in 
     Executive Order 13687 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to 
     imposing additional sanctions with respect to North Korea) or 
     Executive Order 13694 (50 U.S.C. 1701 note; relating to 
     blocking the property of certain persons engaging in 
     significant malicious cyber-enabled activities), as such 
     Executive Orders are in effect on the day before the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, shall remain in effect until the 
     date that is 30 days after the date on which the President 
     submits to Congress a certification that the Government of 
     North Korea, persons acting for or on behalf of that 
     Government, and persons owned or controlled, directly or 
     indirectly, by that Government or persons acting for or on 
     behalf of that Government, are no longer engaged in the 
     illicit activities described in such Executive Orders, 
     including actions in violation of United Nations Security 
     Council Resolutions 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), 
     and 2094 (2013).
       (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be 
     construed to limit the authority of the President pursuant to 
     the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
     1701 et seq.).

     SEC. 211. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON TRILATERAL COOPERATION BETWEEN 
                   THE UNITED STATES, SOUTH KOREA, AND JAPAN.

       (a) In General.--It is the sense of Congress that the 
     President--
       (1) should seek to strengthen high-level trilateral 
     mechanisms for discussion and coordination of policy toward 
     North Korea between the Government of the United States, the 
     Government of South Korea, and the Government of Japan;
       (2) should ensure that the mechanisms specifically address 
     North Korea's nuclear, ballistic, and conventional weapons 
     programs, its human rights record, and cybersecurity threats 
     posed by North Korea;
       (3) should ensure that representatives of the United 
     States, South Korea, and Japan meet on a regular basis and 
     include representatives of the United States Department of 
     State, the United States Department of Defense, the United 
     States intelligence community, and representatives of 
     counterpart agencies in South Korea and Japan; and
       (4) should continue to brief the relevant congressional 
     committees regularly on the status of such discussions.
       (b) Relevant Committees.--The relevant committees referred 
     to in subsection (a)(4) shall include--
       (1) the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of 
     the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on 
     Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on 
     Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

                  TITLE III--PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

     SEC. 301. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY.

       Section 104 of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 
     (22 U.S.C. 7814) is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:
       ``(d) Information Technology Study.--Not later than 180 
     days after the date of the enactment of the North Korea 
     Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2015, the President 
     shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
     classified report that sets forth a detailed plan for making 
     unrestricted, unmonitored, and inexpensive electronic mass 
     communications available to the people of North Korea.''.

     SEC. 302. STRATEGY TO PROMOTE NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in 
     coordination with other appropriate Federal departments and 
     agencies, shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Relations 
     of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
     House of Representatives a report that details a United 
     States strategy to promote initiatives to enhance 
     international awareness of and to address the human rights 
     situation in North Korea.
       (b) Information.--The report required under subsection (a) 
     should include--
       (1) a list of countries that forcibly repatriate refugees 
     from North Korea; and
       (2) a list of countries where North Korean laborers work, 
     including countries the governments of which have formal 
     arrangements with the Government of North Korea or any person 
     acting for or on behalf of that Government to employ North 
     Korean workers.
       (c) Strategy.--The report required under subsection (a) 
     should include--
       (1) a plan to enhance bilateral and multilateral outreach, 
     including sustained engagement with the governments of 
     partners and allies with overseas posts to routinely demarche 
     or brief those governments on North Korea human rights 
     issues, including forced labor, trafficking, and repatriation 
     of citizens of North Korea;
       (2) public affairs and public diplomacy campaigns, 
     including options to work with news organizations and media 
     outlets to publish opinion pieces and secure public speaking 
     opportunities for United States Government officials on 
     issues related to the human rights situation in North Korea, 
     including forced labor, trafficking, and repatriation of 
     citizens of North Korea; and
       (3) opportunities to coordinate and collaborate with 
     appropriate nongovernmental organizations and private sector 
     entities to raise awareness and provide assistance to North 
     Korean defectors throughout the world.

     SEC. 303. REPORT ON NORTH KOREAN PRISON CAMPS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of State shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report that describes, 
     with respect to each political prison camp in North Korea, to 
     the extent information is available--
       (1) the camp's estimated prisoner population;
       (2) the camp's geographical coordinates;
       (3) the reasons for the confinement of the prisoners;
       (4) the camp's primary industries and products, and the end 
     users of any goods produced in the camp;
       (5) the individuals and agencies responsible for conditions 
     in the camp;
       (6) the conditions under which prisoners are confined, with 
     respect to the adequacy of food, shelter, medical care, 
     working conditions, and reports of ill-treatment of 
     prisoners; and
       (7) imagery, to include satellite imagery of the camp, in a 
     format that, if published, would not compromise the sources 
     and methods used by the United States intelligence community 
     to capture geospatial imagery.
       (b) Form.--The report required under subsection (a) may be 
     included in the first human rights report required to be 
     submitted to Congress after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act under sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign 
     Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151n(d) and 2304(b)).

     SEC. 304. REPORT ON AND IMPOSITION OF SANCTIONS WITH RESPECT 
                   TO SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES OR CENSORSHIP IN 
                   NORTH KOREA.

       (a) Report Required.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of State shall submit to the 
     appropriate congressional committees a report that--
       (A) identifies each person the Secretary determines to be 
     responsible for serious human rights abuses or censorship in 
     North Korea and describes the conduct of that person; and
       (B) describes serious human rights abuses or censorship 
     undertaken by the Government of North Korea or any person 
     acting for or on behalf of that Government in the most recent 
     year ending before the submission of the report.
       (2) Consideration.--In preparing the report required under 
     paragraph (1), the Secretary of State shall--
       (A) give due consideration to the findings of the United 
     Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea; 
     and
       (B) make specific findings with respect to the 
     responsibility of Kim Jong Un, and of each individual who is 
     a member of the National Defense Commission of North Korea or 
     the Organization and Guidance Department of the Workers' 
     Party of Korea, for serious human rights abuses and 
     censorship.
       (3) Submission and form.--
       (A) Submission.--The report required under paragraph (1) 
     shall be submitted not later than 120 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter for 
     a period not to exceed 3 years, and shall be included in each 
     human rights report required under sections 116(d) and 
     502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
     2151n(d) and 2304(b)).
       (B) Form.--The report required under paragraph (1) shall be 
     submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified 
     annex.
       (C) Public availability.--The Secretary of State shall 
     publish the unclassified part of the report required under 
     paragraph (1) on the website of the Department of State.
       (b) Designation of Persons.--The President shall designate 
     under section 104(a) any person listed in the report required 
     under subsection (a)(1) that--
       (1) knowingly engages in, is responsible for, or 
     facilitates censorship by the Government of North Korea; or
       (2) knowingly engages in, is responsible for, or 
     facilitates serious human rights abuses by the Government of 
     North Korea.
       (c) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the President should--
       (1) seek the prompt adoption by the United Nations Security 
     Council of a resolution calling for the blocking of the 
     assets of all persons responsible for severe human rights 
     abuses or censorship in North Korea; and
       (2) fully cooperate with the prosecution of any individual 
     listed in the report required under subsection (a)(1) before 
     any international tribunal that may be established to 
     prosecute persons responsible for severe human rights abuses 
     or censorship in North Korea.

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                     TITLE IV--GENERAL AUTHORITIES

     SEC. 401. SUSPENSION OF SANCTIONS AND OTHER MEASURES.

       (a) In General.--Any sanction or other measure required 
     under title I, II, or III (or any amendment made by such 
     titles) may be suspended for up to 1 year upon certification 
     by the President to the appropriate congressional committees 
     that the Government of North Korea has made progress toward--
       (1) verifiably ceasing its counterfeiting of United States 
     currency, including the surrender or destruction of 
     specialized materials and equipment used or particularly 
     suitable for counterfeiting;
       (2) taking steps toward financial transparency to comply 
     with generally accepted protocols to cease and prevent the 
     laundering of monetary instruments;
       (3) taking steps toward verification of its compliance with 
     applicable United Nations Security Council resolutions;
       (4) taking steps toward accounting for and repatriating the 
     citizens of other countries--
       (A) abducted or unlawfully held captive by the Government 
     of North Korea; or
       (B) detained in violation of the Agreement Concerning a 
     Military Armistice in Korea, signed at Panmunjom July 27, 
     1953 (commonly referred to as the ``Korean War Armistice 
     Agreement'');
       (5) accepting and beginning to abide by internationally 
     recognized standards for the distribution and monitoring of 
     humanitarian aid; and
       (6) taking verified steps to improve living conditions in 
     its political prison camps.
       (b) Renewal of Suspension.--The suspension described in 
     subsection (a) may be renewed for additional, consecutive 
     180-day periods after the President certifies to the 
     appropriate congressional committees that the Government of 
     North Korea has continued to comply with the conditions 
     described in subsection (a) during the previous year.

     SEC. 402. TERMINATION OF SANCTIONS AND OTHER MEASURES.

       Any sanction or other measure required under title I, II, 
     or III (or any amendment made by such titles) shall terminate 
     on the date on which the President determines and certifies 
     to the appropriate congressional committees that the 
     Government of North Korea has--
       (1) met the requirements set forth in section 401; and
       (2) made significant progress toward--
       (A) completely, verifiably, and irreversibly dismantling 
     all of its nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological 
     weapons programs, including all programs for the development 
     of systems designed in whole or in part for the delivery of 
     such weapons;
       (B) releasing all political prisoners, including the 
     citizens of North Korea detained in North Korea's political 
     prison camps;
       (C) ceasing its censorship of peaceful political activity;
       (D) establishing an open, transparent, and representative 
     society; and
       (E) fully accounting for and repatriating United States 
     citizens (including deceased United States citizens)--
       (i) abducted or unlawfully held captive by the Government 
     of North Korea; or
       (ii) detained in violation of the Agreement Concerning a 
     Military Armistice in Korea, signed at Panmunjom July 27, 
     1953 (commonly referred to as the ``Korean War Armistice 
     Agreement'').

     SEC. 403. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       (a) In General.--There are authorized to be appropriated 
     for each of fiscal years 2017 through 2021--
       (1) $3,000,000 to carry out section 103 of the North Korea 
     Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7813);
       (2) $3,000,000 to carry out subsections (a), (b), and (c) 
     of section 104 of that Act (22 U.S.C. 7814);
       (3) $2,000,000 to carry out subsection (d) of such section 
     104, as add by section 301 of this Act; and
       (4) $2,000,000 to carry out section 203 of the North Korea 
     Human Rights Act of 2004 (22 U.S.C. 7833).
       (b) Availability of Funds.--Amounts appropriated for each 
     fiscal year pursuant to subsection (a) shall remain available 
     until expended.

     SEC. 404. RULEMAKING.

       (a) In General.--The President is authorized to promulgate 
     such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out 
     the provisions of this Act (which may include regulatory 
     exceptions), including under section 205 of the International 
     Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1704).
       (b) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this Act, or in any 
     amendment made by this Act, may be construed to limit the 
     authority of the President to designate or sanction persons 
     pursuant to an applicable Executive order or otherwise 
     pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 
     (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.).

     SEC. 405. AUTHORITY TO CONSOLIDATE REPORTS.

       Any and all reports required to be submitted to appropriate 
     congressional committees under this Act or any amendment made 
     by this Act that are subject to a deadline for submission 
     consisting of the same unit of time may be consolidated into 
     a single report that is submitted to appropriate 
     congressional committees pursuant to such deadline. The 
     consolidated reports must contain all information required 
     under this Act or any amendment made by this Act, in addition 
     to all other elements mandated by previous law.

     SEC. 406. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       Except as otherwise provided in this Act, this Act and the 
     amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the date of 
     the enactment of this Act.

   The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Royce) and the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel) each 
will control 20 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California.


                             General Leave

  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may 
have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to 
include extraneous material on this resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from California?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. ROYCE. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, for 3 years the Committee on Foreign Affairs that I 
chair has worked with great determination to build support for this 
North Korea sanctions legislation.
  I want to thank my Democratic colleagues, and I especially want to 
thank the gentleman from New York (Mr. Engel), our ranking member, for 
his support in this legislation.
  I also thank Senators Corker, Cardin, and Gardner, for their 
leadership in the Senate and for their strong additions, particularly 
on human rights and on cyber attacks by the brutal and hostile North 
Korean regime.
  Today Congress--Democrats and Republicans, House and Senate--unites 
to put this North Korean sanctions legislation on the President's desk. 
Last month this bill passed the House with 418 votes, and this week it 
passed the Senate 96-0.
  Mr. Speaker, these overwhelming votes reflect bipartisan frustration 
with our North Korea policy, a policy of strategic patience that isn't 
working. Today Congress unites to say it is time for a new approach.
  Mr. Speaker, last month North Korea conducted its fourth known 
nuclear test, and last weekend it concluded a long-range missile test. 
On Tuesday, our Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, 
testified that North Korea has restarted a plutonium reactor and 
expanded that production of weapons-grade nuclear fuel.
  The threat to the United States and our allies is real. The 
tyrannical regime of Kim Jong-un has developed increasingly destructive 
weapons: its miniaturized nuclear warheads that fit onto its most 
reliable missiles. We cannot stand by any longer.
  The legislation we consider today, H.R. 757, is the most 
comprehensive North Korea sanctions legislation to come before this 
body. My bill uses targeted financial and economic pressure to isolate 
Kim Jong-un and his top officials from the assets they maintain in 
foreign banks and from the hard currency that sustains their rule.
  These assets are gained, in part, from illicit activities on the part 
of North Korea, like counterfeiting U.S. currency and selling weapons 
around the world, and they are used to advance the North Korean nuclear 
program.
  They also pay for the luxurious lifestyle of the ruling elites and 
the continued repression of the North Korean people by their police 
state.
  In 2005, the Treasury Department blacklisted a small bank in Macao 
called Banco Delta Asia, which not only froze North Korea's money in 
the bank, but also scared away other financial institutions from 
dealing with the Government of North Korea for fear that they, too, 
would be blacklisted. Unfortunately, this effective policy was shelved 
for ill-fated negotiations, but this bill can get us back to a winning 
strategy.
  Equally important to the strong sanctions in this bill are its 
critical human rights provisions. North Korea operates a brutal system 
of gulags that hold as many as 120,000 men, women, and children.
  If a North Korean is suspected of any kind of dissenting opinion, 
even telling a joke about the regime, his entire family for three 
generations is punished. North Korea is a human rights house of 
horrors.
  Two years ago the U.N. Commission of Inquiry released the most 
comprehensive report on North Korea to date, and their finding was that 
the Kim Jong-un regime and the whole family regime has, for decades, 
pursued policies involving crimes--and this is the words of the United 
Nations report--crimes that shock the conscience of humanity.

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  This amended version requires the administration to develop a 
strategy to promote North Korean human rights, including a list of 
countries that use North Korean slave labor.
  The implementation of this bill will help sever a key subsidy for 
North Korea's weapons of mass destruction program, for only when the 
North Korean leadership realizes that its criminal activities are 
untenable will the prospects for peace and security in northeast Asia 
improve.
  I reserve the balance of my time, Mr. Speaker.
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I rise in support of this measure.
  First of all, let me thank Chairman Royce for authoring the bill. I 
am proud to be the lead Democratic cosponsor, and I am glad that we are 
almost to the finish line.
  Just over a month ago we passed this bill and sent it to the Senate. 
The Senate acted quickly to make minor adjustments, and today we will 
pass this bipartisan legislation and send it to the President's desk.
  This process is a great example of what we can accomplish when we 
work in a bipartisan way to advance American security. As I have said 
many times before, I am proud of the members on both sides of the aisle 
of the Committee on Foreign Affairs because we have worked in a 
bipartisan manner.
  I would caution all Members about leveling political charges when it 
comes to North Korea. I am reminded of the old adage that people who 
live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
  We all know North Korea is a problem, but let's not kid ourselves. 
This problem has grown under many administrations, in Congresses of 
both parties. So when we talk about how we got here, we need to really 
focus in a bipartisan manner. That is what we are trying to do.
  The Kim regime is dangerous. North Korea's nuclear program threatens 
regional stability and global security. It worries me to think what 
North Korea's leaders plan to do with their nuclear arsenal or who they 
might be willing to sell nuclear material to.
  While it is bad enough on its own, North Korea's nuclear program is 
just the top item on a long list of dangerous and illegal activity by 
that regime.
  From cyber attacks to money laundering and counterfeiting, from human 
rights abuses, as Chairman Royce has pointed out, to the regular 
attacks on South Korea, the Kim regime runs roughshod over the rules 
and norms that guide the global order. Yet, they haven't been deterred 
by some of the toughest sanctions imaginable or the near-universal 
condemnation of the global community or the deepening isolation of 
North Korea from the rest of the world. So we are left to tighten the 
screws even further. That is what we are trying to do today.
  We need to work with South Korea and Japan on a tough, coordinated 
response. We need to take every opportunity to collaborate on this 
issue with the Chinese, who wield considerable influence over North 
Korea, and we need to dial up our own sanctions and toughen sanctions 
enforcement. That is exactly what this bill does.

  North Korea is always looking for ways to get around our sanctions. 
The sanctions in this bill would focus especially on North Korean 
elites who conduct shady transactions with shell corporations, then 
cover up the money trail. In Pyongyang, the capital, these cronies of 
the Kim regime pocket the cash while the rest of the North Korean 
people suffer.
  I have been to North Korea twice, and it is just sickening that the 
regime and its friends profit from these crimes while the rest of the 
country is literally starving.
  On that point, this bill includes important exceptions for the 
humanitarian aid that benefits the North Korean people. Our anger is 
not with the people of North Korea. In fact, the United States does a 
great deal to provide aid to this oppressed population.
  But they deserve better from their leaders. That is why we should 
send this bill to the President. That is why we should continue to make 
North Korea a top foreign policy priority.
  The Kim family has ruled North Korea for many, many, many years. Kim 
Jong-un seems to be the worst of the lot, with the repressions, the 
assassinations, the political stranglehold that he keeps the whole 
country in, and the fact that many people get caught, as Chairman Royce 
pointed out, in the gulag. Families are oppressed. It is just a 
nightmare of horrors.
  The North Korean people deserve better from their leaders. That is 
why we should send this bill to the President and why we should 
continue to make North Korea a top foreign policy priority.
  I am proud to support this bill. I am proud to be the lead Democrat 
on the bill. I urge my colleagues to do the same.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, before yielding to our next speaker, I also 
want to note that this bill effectively reauthorizes and extends the 
North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, which I have worked to support 
for more than a dozen years.
  That groundbreaking law, which was reauthorized in 2008 and again in 
2012 by our chairman emeritus, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, emphasized that 
human rights, the free flow of information, and the protection of those 
who escaped are not only important to the people of North Korea, they 
are also critical to changing North Korea's strategic calculus and 
trying to force that rogue regime to address the needs of its own 
people instead of threatening its neighbors.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. 
Smith), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global 
Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations.

                              {time}  0930

  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, the North Korean dictatorship is an existential threat 
that requires significantly enhanced vigilance and response.
  The North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2016, authored by 
Chairman Ed Royce, will ensure that the Obama administration takes 
meaningful action to mitigate North Korea's cruelty, human rights 
abuse, and military danger.
  The U.S. can no longer sit on the sidelines while Kim Jong-un 
proliferates nuclear and missile technology and abuses and starves the 
North Korean people.
  North Korea violates every single human right enshrined in the 
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. North Korea is listed by the 
State Department as a tier 3 country with respect to human trafficking. 
It is designated as one of eight Countries of Particular Concern for 
engaging in egregious violations of religious freedom.
  Mr. Speaker, I have chaired four hearings on human rights abuses in 
North Korea. It is, as Chairman Royce noted, a house of horrors.
  The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on North Korea recommended that the 
U.N. impose targeted sanctions on North Korean leaders responsible for 
these crimes against humanity. However, China blocks effective U.N. 
actions. This, in part, is why the Congress and the administration must 
act now. North Korean human rights abusers must be identified and 
listed so that sanctions can be appropriately applied.
  North Korea's launch of a long-range rocket last week reenergized 
concern over that country's intercontinental ballistic missile program. 
The launch was strongly condemned by the U.N. Security Council, which 
vowed to apply further sanctions. Hopefully, the Security Council's 
investigation now underway will also look at partner nations who 
purchase North Korean missile technology.
  Iran, to whom the administration has just released billions of 
dollars, is one of North Korea's nuclear partners. We should be very 
concerned about that. At some point, the Iranians will acquire fissile 
material beyond what they are allowed to produce, they may 
clandestinely purchase actual warheads from North Korea, or, perhaps, 
Iran will get enriched uranium--their stash--back from Russia.
  At a Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday, Mr. Speaker--and 
Chairman Royce has had well over 35 oversight hearings on Iran--I asked 
President Obama's coordinator for implementation of the Iran nuclear 
deal where Iran's stockpile of enriched uranium was sent. Where did it 
go? Is it in

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Russia? What city? Do we--or the IAEA--have onsite access to where it 
is stored for verifications purposes? Remember President Reagan? He 
said: Trust and verify. Onsite verification.
  Shockingly, Ambassador Mull said he didn't know where the enriched 
uranium is. He did say it was on a Russian ship somewhere heading to a 
port or to a final destination. But its specific location--we don't 
have a clue.
  Yesterday's revelation was yet another flaw in an egregiously flawed 
Iran nuclear deal. We know that there is a connection between North 
Korea and Iran. So our vigilance must be stepped up significantly. This 
bill is a major step. It is in fact bipartisan: Eliot Engel, again, 
working side-by-side with the chairman to make sure a good bill is 
produced.
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Wilson), a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and 
chairman of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities.
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. I thank Chairman Ed Royce for his 
leadership on freedom and liberty.
  Mr. Speaker, I strongly support the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement 
Act of 2016.
  Recently, we have seen overwhelming evidence that the monarchy in 
North Korea, led by an unstable dictator, has become increasingly 
hostile, threatening its neighbors, which are American allies.
  Sadly, just last week, it successfully tested a long-range rocket 
which is capable of reaching California. This recent missile test comes 
after years of ignoring nonproliferation agreements and conducting 
nuclear tests without facing any meaningful consequences.
  As America continues to fight the global war on terrorism, we should 
not allow an unpredictable rogue leader to continue unchecked. We must 
change course to a strategy of peace through strength to protect 
American families.
  In 2003, I was one of the few Members of Congress to visit Pyongyang, 
North Korea, along with Ranking Member Eliot Engel and Chairman Jeff 
Miller. I saw firsthand the struggle and oppression its citizens have 
endured under Communist totalitarian rule. Compared to the dynamic 
capital of South Korea, North Korea is the ultimate example of another 
socialist failure.
  The North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act strengthens our Nation's 
ability to sanction the agents, government, and financial institutions 
that enable North Korea's dangerous activities.
  I am grateful to Chairman Ed Royce for introducing the North Korea 
Sanctions Enforcement Act, unanimously supported in the U.S. Senate 
with bipartisan support, which puts pressure on the regime by 
restricting them from selling weapons of mass destruction, importing 
and exporting conventional weapons, and engaging in further 
cyberattacks. It also directs the State Department to hold the 
administration accountable by creating a strategy to improve 
enforcement of existing sanctions.
  This legislation is an important first step to achieving peace 
through strength in the region. I look forward to working with my 
colleagues on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Armed Services 
Committee to promote positive change and stability in Northeast Asia so 
that all Koreans can have a bright future.
  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Poe), chairman of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, 
Nonproliferation, and Trade.
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I want to also reiterate the 
bipartisanship in which this legislation has been brought to the floor 
through the work of the chairman and the ranking member, who are 
experts in foreign affairs and especially countries like North Korea.
  Mr. Speaker, when I had a chance last year to visit with the Pacific 
Command, I talked to the four-star Admiral in Pacific Command and asked 
him this question: Of the five entities that are threats to the United 
States--Russia, China, Iran, ISIS, and North Korea--which of those 
concerns you the most? He quickly said: North Korea. Because they are 
an unstable regime.
  This legislation will help, hopefully, have that unstable dictator, 
who murders his own people, is trigger happy, and is developing all 
types of weapons and puts them on the open market to sell them to other 
nations that want to cause mischief in the world, stop this conduct in 
North Korea.
  Yes, North Korea has nuclear weapons. They are developing missiles to 
deliver those nuclear weapons. About a year or a year and a half ago, 
the dictator of North Korea said he wanted that first intercontinental 
ballistic missile to go to Austin, Texas. I take that a little 
personal, Mr. Speaker. I don't know why he picked Austin. Anyway, they 
are working on their delivery capability. They have no intention of 
stopping.
  So, the international community must tell the dictator of North 
Korea: You can't do this. You can't be a menace to not only your own 
people, or the people in South Korea and the entire region, but the 
world.
  This legislation is an important step in stopping the mischief-making 
and trigger-happy dictator of North Korea.
  And that is just the way it is.
  Mr. ENGEL. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Let me first start with Mr. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who was on 
the trip with me, as he mentioned, to North Korea.
  We drove in from the airport on a bus. Joe was sitting at the front 
of it. We saw all these hostile billboards. We couldn't, of course, 
read it--it was in Korean--but we could look at the pictures.
  One of the pictures had an American soldier on the ground and a North 
Korean soldier with a bayonet right through the American soldier's 
head. The reason why we knew it was an American soldier is because it 
said USA on the soldier's uniform.
  Mr. Wilson sat in the front and very carefully maneuvered his camera 
and snapped a picture. We have that picture. If the North Koreans had 
known what we were doing, they probably would have confiscated the 
camera, but they didn't. I just wanted to mention that.
  There were, I believe, six of us on that trip. It was a bipartisan 
trip. It was an eye-opener. I went back a few years later, but I 
remember the gentleman from South Carolina sitting there and very 
skillfully maneuvering that camera. That is a good picture that we 
should probably blow up and let our colleagues see so that they 
understand the regime they are dealing with. This was not Kim Jung-un. 
His father was in power at the time.
  So, it seems to be getting progressively worse. The father was known 
as the ``Dear Leader.'' The grandfather, who was the person most 
responsible for their revolution, was also heralded. Wherever we went 
in North Korea, there were pictures of the two of them on the walls, 
whether it was in schools or at the hotel. It is a very eerie feeling.
  It kind of brings you back, for those who read the book ``Nineteen 
Eighty-Four'' when we were kids, which was in the future and now is in 
the past. But for those people who read that book, to me, that sort of 
describes the Korean regime. It is really a scary, scary thing.
  The work we are doing here today is so important. It is so important 
to send a message. It is so important to let the world know that we 
haven't forgotten this. This remains a bipartisan priority for the U.S. 
Congress.
  The Kim regime must understand that if it continues to defy the 
global consensus and ignore its obligation under international law, 
there will be consequences. The elites in North Korea must be shown 
that if they try to skirt sanctions, we will find new ways to go after 
them. Anyone who wants to do business with North Korea must be warned 
that we will crack down on those who help sustain this brutal regime.
  The only way forward for North Korea is for its leaders to give up 
their illegal and dangerous pursuits and come back to the negotiating 
table.
  I am proud that Congress is sending this bill to the President, and I 
hope we will ramp up engagement with our partners and allies and make 
it clear that North Korea's present course can only lead to deeper 
isolation for the country's leaders and, sadly, continued suffering for 
the country's people.

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  I think the most stark difference that I have seen in all the years I 
have been in Congress was when we went to the North Korean capital of 
Pyongyang and then traveled to the capital of South Korea--Seoul--where 
Congressman Wilson's wife and other spouses were waiting.
  Seoul is a city that is vibrant. It is much like New York City, 
Chicago, or any of the big cities in our country, where the people are 
well-dressed and well-fed and shops are open. It looks like a real 
western-style city. Of course, it is Asia, but it reminds one of Tokyo 
or cities like that.
  When you go to North Korea, it is just like going back into 1950's 
East Germany. That is just the feeling that you get. You see hotels and 
buildings that were constructed poorly and couldn't be occupied. When 
we came back about 18 months later, it was still just the way it was 18 
months before. You hardly see a car. Traffic lights don't work. It is 
just bizarre--I think that is the word--and the poor North Korean 
people are the ones who are really suffering. The contrast between 
Pyongyang, which is the capital of North Korea, and Seoul, the capital 
of South Korea, was just unbelievable. It was like night and day. It is 
on the same peninsula, it is the same Korean people, and yet it is like 
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                              {time}  0945

  I think they say pictures are worth a thousand words. There is a 
picture of the Korean Peninsula at night. It was taken by satellite, 
and if you take a look, you see that South Korea is vibrant. There are 
all kinds of lights. It is lit up. North Korea is absolutely black, 
absolutely dark--no lights, no energy, no power.
  What a contrast--two Koreas, same people. One is a bastion of 
democracy in South Korea--the chairman and I have visited South Korea--
and one, a brutal, brutal dictatorship.
  So I hope that this bill overwhelmingly passes. I hope that we have 
strong support from both sides of the aisle.
  We want to let the people of North Korea know that we are with them, 
not with the brutal regime, and that is why we are doing this 
legislation today.
  So I thank Chairman Royce. I urge everyone to vote ``yes.''
  I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, I would like to again thank Ranking Member Eliot Engel 
for his leadership on this issue. He is my coauthor on this bill.
  I would just like to concur in his thoughts about the shocking nature 
of this totalitarian regime, not just in terms of the way it has 
treated its people, but also its hostility towards South Korea and 
towards the United States and to the West; and to just share the 
thought, as he has expressed, this level of struggle that the people 
themselves in North Korea live in under this totalitarian state.
  When I was in North Korea, I had an opportunity to see something that 
struck me just in terms of the malnutrition. The NGO community tells us 
that close to 50 percent of those children are malnourished. What I saw 
in terms of the malnourishment, the NGO community says malnourished to 
the point that it affects their ability to learn.
  The malnourishment can be seen everywhere. The actual height 
differential between the average person in North Korea, it is 4 inches 
shorter than in South Korea. That is a really stark thing to see as you 
are in North Korea.
  But the other observation that Mr. Engel made was the overt hostility 
shown to the United States and, of course, to South Korea and to the 
rest of the world.
  I remember seeing the Cheonan. This is a corvette. This was a South 
Korean ship on which 46 South Koreans lost their lives, over 50 were 
injured. It was split in half by a torpedo from a North Korean 
submarine. And they actually lifted the two halves out of the water. 
Inspecting that and looking at the letters, the last letters that some 
of those young South Korean sailors had sent home before they perished, 
it is just a reminder, it is a reminder of how brutal that regime can 
be on its own people, but also on those against whom it has ill intent. 
So the South Koreans have suffered from this.
  And now, to see them move forward and try to expand this nuclear 
weapons program, each new launch brings them closer. They say they can 
hit the West Coast of the United States. They are claiming that they 
will be able to hit the entire U.S. with their ICBM program. These 
placards that you see and these posters actually show their missiles 
coming down on the United States.
  So, at this point, I think it is critical, and our colleagues in the 
Senate feel the same way. I want to thank our Senate colleagues for 
building upon the House bill which Eliot Engel and I have authored. And 
I also appreciate the cooperation of the bipartisan House leadership to 
ensure this bill's quick scheduling. It is just back from the Senate.
  In the wake of North Korea's fourth nuclear test and its recent 
missile launch, many of our allies also are trying to tighten the 
screws now on that regime in order to slow its capability to deliver 
this type of weapon. Only days ago, South Korea shuttered the Kaesong 
Industrial Complex because, as they observed, it was giving the North 
Korean regime the hard currency it needed in order to move forward its 
weapons programs. This will end a very important revenue for the North 
Korean regime. Japan has issued a new set of sanctions as well, and 
China and Russia should take notice and follow this example.
  It is time for the United States to stand with our partners in 
northeast Asia as we press China and Russia to follow suit, and this 
bill sends the message to that regime in North Korea that they must 
reform and they must disarm this nuclear weapons program. By cutting 
off Kim Jong-un's access to the hard currency he needs for his army and 
his weapons, H.R. 757 will return us to the one strategy that has 
worked: financial pressure on the North Korean regime. So I urge the 
passage of this bill.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mr. SALMON. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to add my strong support to 
H.R. 757, the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2016, a critical 
bill to target the rogue Kim Jong Un regime in North Korea. I want to 
thank Chairman Ed Royce for drafting this important piece of 
legislation with Ranking Member Eliot Engel and moving swiftly to bring 
it for a final vote here in the House before sending it on to the 
President. North Korea needs to know that it cannot pursue a nuclear 
program without a tough response from the United States and our allies 
in the region.
  This latest nuclear test and missile launch test fly in the face of 
current international sanctions and against years and years of 
negotiation to end North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
  By their actions, it is clear that North Korea has every intention to 
continue advancing its nuclear and missile programs, in an effort to 
strengthen both domestic and international positions. This must stop 
here.
  This bill before us today will seize assets connected with North 
Korea's proliferation program. It will staunch the flow of cash from 
anyone involved in arms trafficking, luxury goods, money laundering, 
and other means of weapons proliferation in North Korea.
  H.R. 757 will also target the regime's horrendous and appalling human 
rights abuses, by requiring the Administration to develop a strategy 
that would protect human rights in North Korea and identify those in 
the North Korean regime who violate basic human rights and dignity.
  The time is now to take action and punish the North Korean regime for 
its destructive behavior. The time to act is now. We cannot wait for 
another nuclear test, another missile launch, another island shelling, 
another ship sinking, or another hacking attack. If the Administration 
will not act to hold the North Korean regime to account, then the 
Congress must.
  I am proud to vote in favor of H.R. 757 and strongly encourage all of 
my House colleagues to join me.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Royce) that the House suspend the rules 
and concur in the Senate amendment to the bill, H.R. 757.
  The question was taken.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. In the opinion of the Chair, two-thirds 
being in the affirmative, the ayes have it.
  Mr. ROYCE. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further 
proceedings on this motion will be postponed.

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