[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S3092]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1563. Mr. MARKEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 1502 proposed by Mr. Schumer to the bill S. 1260, to 
establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the 
National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub 
program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, 
science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to 
establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other 
purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        Strike section 3234 insert the following:

     SEC. 3234. STATEMENT OF POLICY REGARDING UNIVERSAL 
                   IMPLEMENTATION OF UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS ON 
                   NORTH KOREA.

       It is the policy of the United States to sustain economic 
     pressure on the Government of the Democratic People's 
     Republic of Korea (referred to in this section as the 
     ``DPRK'') until the regime undertakes concrete, verifiable 
     actions toward denuclearization, including by--
       (1) pressing all nations, including the PRC, to implement 
     and enforce existing United Nations sanctions with regard to 
     the DPRK;
       (2) pressing all nations, including the PRC, and in 
     accordance with United Nations Security Council resolutions, 
     to end the practice of hosting DPRK citizens as guest 
     workers, recognizing that such workers are demonstrated to 
     constitute an illicit source of revenue for the DPRK regime 
     and its nuclear ambitions;
       (3) pressing all nations, including the PRC, to pursue 
     rigorous interdiction of shipments to and from the DPRK, 
     including ship-to-ship transfers, consistent with United 
     Nations Security Council resolutions;
       (4) pressing the PRC and PRC entities--
       (A) to cease business activities with United Nations-
     designated entities and their affiliates in the DPRK; and
       (B) to expel from the PRC individuals who enable the DPRK 
     to acquire materials for its nuclear and ballistic missile 
     programs;
       (5) enforcing United Nations Security Council resolutions 
     with respect to the DPRK and United States sanctions, 
     including those pursuant to the North Korea Sanctions and 
     Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 (Public Law 114-122), the 
     Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act 
     (Public Law 115-44), the Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear 
     Sanctions and Enforcement Act of 2019 (title LXXI of division 
     F of Public Law 116-92), and relevant United States executive 
     orders;
       (6) welcoming the interagency review mandated by the 
     national security memorandum issued by President Joseph R. 
     Biden, Jr., on January 21, 2021, and entitled ``National 
     Security Memorandum on United States Global Leadership to 
     Strengthen the International COVID-19 Response and to Advance 
     Global Health Security and Biological Preparedness'', as an 
     opportunity to make appropriate adjustments, consistent with 
     existing law, to United States and multilateral sanctions to 
     ensure that such sanctions do not inadvertently hinder 
     legitimate humanitarian access and travel to the DPRK; and
       (7) reinforcing eligibility for special validation travel 
     to the DPRK related to repatriation of the remains of United 
     States veterans from the Korean War, as is permitted under 
     section 208(a)(3) of the North Korea Sanctions and Policy 
     Enhancement Act of 2016 (22 U.S.C. 9228(a)(3)).
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