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115TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 866 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning negotiations 

with North Korea. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 1, 2018 

Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania submitted the following resolution; 

which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives 

concerning negotiations with North Korea. 

Whereas the leadership of the Democratic People’s Republic 

of Korea (DPRK), including its current heir, Kim Jong 

Un, has committed grave atrocities against its own people 

and acts of aggression against its neighbors; 

Whereas up to 120,000 are estimated to be imprisoned in 

brutal North Korean gulags, political prison camps 

known as the kwan-li-so; 

Whereas the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on 

Human Rights in North Korea concluded in 2014 that 

Kim Jong Un and DPRK leadership was perpetrating 

‘‘unspeakable atrocities’’ against its own people on a vast 

scale and committed ‘‘widespread, systematic, and gross 

violations’’ that amount to crimes against humanity; 


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Whereas the Chair of the Commission called these atrocities 

‘‘strikingly similar’’ to crimes committed by Nazi Germany in World War II, including execution, enslavement, 

starvation, rape, and forced abortion, and warned Kim 

Jong Un of his own personal culpability in a special letter attached to the report; 

Whereas under Kim Jong Un’s leadership, there are reports 

of newborn babies in prison being fed to guard dogs, punishment and possible execution of starving prisoners 

caught digging for edible plants, and forced abortions; 

Whereas the Commission stated that ‘‘persons who are forcibly repatriated from China are commonly subjected to 

torture, arbitrary detention, summary execution, forced 

abortion, and other forms of sexual violence’’; 

Whereas the Commission further observed that ‘‘many 

[North Korean] suspects die . . . as a result of torture, 

deliberate starvation, or illnesses developed or aggravated 

by the terrible living conditions’’; 

Whereas according to the Commission, Kim Jong Un ‘‘continues allocating a significant amount of the state’s resources for the purchase and importation of luxury 

goods’’ and diverting state funds to North Korea’s nuclear and military programs, while a majority of North 

Korea’s population suffers; 

Whereas according to the Commission, crimes against humanity in North Korea have been committed ‘‘pursuant 

to policies at the highest level of the state’’; 

Whereas Kim Jong Un, after taking over the leadership of 

North Korea, launched political purges, encompassing 

relatives, including his uncle and half-brother, who was 

murdered by a chemical weapon in Malaysia in 2017; 


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Whereas Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American college student, was brutally tortured by the North Korean regime 

under Kim Jong Un and died shortly after his release 

from North Korea; 

Whereas Kim Jong Un has expanded an illicit nuclear weapons program and directly threatened the United States 

and its allies; 

Whereas the strength of the United States stems from its values and principles; 

Whereas the National Security Strategy of 2017 states that 

the ‘‘America’s values and influence, underwritten by 

American power, make the world more free, secure, and 

prosperous,’’ and ‘‘[W]e will never lose sight of our values and their capacity to inspire, uplift, and renew.’’: 

Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that— 

3 (1) President Trump’s statement on April 26, 

4 2018, that Kim Jong Un is an ‘‘honorable man’’ is 

5 an affront to American values and grossly incon6 sistent with the reality in North Korea and the 

7 President’s own public statements about the nature 

8 of the regime; and 

9 (2) President Trump should ensure that any 

10 negotiations with North Korea—and United States 

11 policy towards North Korea, generally—incorporate 


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1 United States values, including concern for human 

2 rights and the welfare of the North Korean people. 

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