Sec. 1273. Sense of Congress on the illegal nuclear weapons programs of Iran and North Korea
216 words·~1 min read·
/bill/113/hr/1960/eh/section-1273A research copy — for the controlling text, always check the official state or federal source. Not legal advice.
It is the sense of Congress that— the paramount security concern of the United States is the ongoing and illegal nuclear weapons programs of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; it should be the primary objective of the President of the United States to ensure that North Korea’s nuclear program is completely and verifiably eliminated and that Iran, and its terrorist proxies, are not allowed to develop nuclear weapons capability and the means to deliver them; the continuing failure to compel Iran and North Korea to comply with their respective obligations under international law risks greater nuclear proliferation throughout already unstable regions by states that have chosen, but not irreversibly so, to refrain from developing or acquiring their own nuclear weapons capability; nuclear arms reductions by the United States and the Russian Federation have not persuaded or otherwise incentivized Iran and North Korea to halt or reverse their destabilizing and dangerous nuclear weapons programs, nor have they resulted in increased cooperation by other states to deal with these threats; and the President should use all international fora available to the President to pursue the complete and verifiable elimination of the nuclear weapons programs of Iran and North Korea as the President’s paramount obligation to the security of the American people.