Sec. 2. Findings; purposes
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Congress finds the following: The Government of North Korea— has repeatedly violated its commitments to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement of its nuclear weapons programs; and has willfully violated multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for it to cease its development, testing, and production of weapons of mass destruction. North Korea poses a grave risk for the proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
The Government of North Korea has been implicated repeatedly in money laundering and illicit activities, including— prohibited arms sales; narcotics trafficking; the counterfeiting of United States currency; and the counterfeiting of intellectual property of United States persons. North Korea has— unilaterally withdrawn from the Korean War Armistice Agreement, done at Panmunjom, Korea, July 27, 1953; and committed provocations against South Korea in 2010— by sinking the warship Cheonan and killing 46 of her crew; and by shelling Yeonpyeong Island and killing 4 South Korean civilians.
North Korea maintains a system of brutal political prison camps that contain as many as 200,000 men, women, and children, who are— kept in atrocious living conditions with insufficient food, clothing, and medical care; and under constant fear of torture or arbitrary execution. North Korea has prioritized weapons programs and the procurement of luxury goods— in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1695 (adopted July 15, 2006), 1718 (adopted October 14, 2006), 1874 (adopted June 12, 2009), 2087 (adopted January 22, 2013), and 2094 (adopted March 7, 2013); and in gross disregard of the needs of its people.
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 these transactions to promote proliferation, weapons trafficking, human rights violations, illicit activity, and the purchase of luxury goods— aid and abet North Korea’s misuse of the international financial system; and violate the intent of the United Nations Security Council resolutions referred to in paragraph (6)(A).
The conduct of the Government of North Korea poses an imminent threat to— the security of the United States and its allies; the global economy; the safety of members of the United States Armed Forces; the integrity of the global financial system; the integrity of global nonproliferation programs; and the people of North Korea. Through this Act, Congress seeks— to use nonmilitary means to address the crisis described in subsection (a); to provide diplomatic leverage to negotiate necessary changes in North Korea’s conduct; to ease the suffering of the people of North Korea; and to reaffirm the purposes set forth in section 4 of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 ( 22 U.S.C. 7802 ).
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