H. Res. 92 

In the House of Representatives, U. S., 

April 3, 2017. 

Whereas the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 

(DPRK), also known as North Korea, possesses a ballistic missile and nuclear weapons development program 

that poses a grave threat to the United States, United 

States allies South Korea and Japan, and to regional and 

global security; 

Whereas North Korea’s ballistic missile program has demonstrated an increasing ability to reach the United 

States, which constitutes a credible and growing threat to 

the security of the American people; 

Whereas North Korea has demonstrated a willingness and 

ability to proliferate its ballistic missile and nuclear 

weapons technology to a variety of countries, including 

the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Syrian Arab Republic, which the United States has designated as state sponsors of terrorism; 

Whereas, on January 6, 2016, North Korea detonated a nuclear device, marking its fourth nuclear test to date; 

Whereas, on February 7, 2016, North Korea, utilizing a 

modified version of the Taepodong-2 ballistic missile, 

launched a ‘‘satellite’’ into space; 
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Whereas according to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s 

2016 Worldwide Threat Assessment, North Korea is 

‘‘committed to developing a long-range, nuclear-armed 

missile that is capable of posing a direct threat to the 

United States; it has publicly displayed its KN08 roadmobile ICBM on multiple occasions’’; 

Whereas, on April 28, 2016, Deputy Secretary of State 

Antony Blinken, in a hearing before the Foreign Affairs 

Committee of the House of Representatives, testified ‘‘the 

benefits of [the trilateral] relationship are crystal clear in 

the face of the region’s most acute challenge—the challenge from North Korea and its provocative acts in the 

nuclear missile domain’’; 

Whereas, on August 24, 2016, North Korea successfully tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile, firing the missile over 300 miles from a submerged submarine; 

Whereas, on September 9, 2016, North Korea conducted its 

fifth nuclear test, which it claimed was a warhead that 

could be miniaturized for its ballistic missiles; 

Whereas, on September 15, 2016, Admiral Harry Harris, 

Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, stated ‘‘Combining nuclear warheads with ballistic missile technology 

in the hands of a volatile leader like Kim Jong-un, is a 

recipe for disaster.’’; 

Whereas, on September 16, 2016, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter stated ‘‘Everyone can see that North Korea 

is determined to try to expand its missile threat to the 

peninsula, to the region, and to the United States.’’; 

Whereas in 2016 North Korea willfully and repeatedly violated multiple United Nations Security Council resolu-
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tions, through its nuclear tests, missile tests, and satellite 

launch; 

Whereas, on January 6, 2017, Deputy Secretary of State 

Antony Blinken stated that North Korea had conducted 

24 missile tests in the past year, as well as two nuclear 

tests and ‘‘in our assessment, we have a qualitative improvement in their capabilities in the past year as a result of this unprecedented level of activity’’; 

Whereas, on January 8, 2017, North Korea declared that it 

is ready to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile 

(ICBM); 

Whereas, on February 11, 2017, North Korea launched an 

intermediate-range ballistic missile off its eastern coast 

while President Donald Trump hosted Japanese Prime 

Minister Shinzo Abe on an official visit to the United 

States; 

Whereas, on February 18, 2017, the People’s Republic of 

China announced that it would suspend all coal imports 

from North Korea, a significant source of revenue to the 

North Korean regime; 

Whereas, on February 27, 2017, the United Nations Panel 

of Experts on North Korea determined that ‘‘The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is flouting sanctions 

through trade in prohibited goods, with evasion techniques that are increasing in scale, scope and sophistication.’’; 

Whereas, on March 6, 2017, North Korea launched four intermediate range missiles, three of which landed approximately 200 miles off the coast of Japan; 

Whereas South Korea and the United States have made an 

alliance decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude 
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Area Defense (THAAD) system as a self-defensive measure to ensure the security of South Korea and its people, 

and to protect alliance military forces from the growing 

threat of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic 

missile program; and 

Whereas a nuclear North Korea with a functional and operational intercontinental ballistic missile program would 

pose a direct threat to the United States and United 

States interests: Now, therefore, be it 

Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

(1) condemns North Korea’s development of multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs); 

(2) welcomes the deployment of the Terminal High 

Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea 

to counter North Korea’s missile threat, which supports 

an alliance security decision; 

(3) urges the Government of the People’s Republic 

of China to immediately cease its diplomatic intimidation 

and economic coercion against South Korea in an attempt to block the THAAD deployment; 

(4) reaffirms the United States support for a layered, integrated, multi-tier missile defense system to protect Americans and allies in Northeast Asia; 

(5) supports continued bilateral security cooperation 

between the United States and South Korea and the 

consideration of additional measures to strengthen the 
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alliance, including expanded foreign military sales, joint 

exercises, and other actions as appropriate; 

(6) reaffirms, in view of the ICBM threat by North 

Korea, the commitment of the United States to its alliances and to trilateral cooperation with South Korea and 

Japan, which is critical for the preservation of peace and 

stability in Northeast Asia and throughout the world; 

(7) supports and urges the full implementation of 

the intelligence sharing agreement between Japan and 

South Korea signed on November 23, 2016, concerning 

the direct exchange of intelligence on North Korean 

threats; 

(8) calls upon the People’s Republic of China to use 

its considerable leverage to pressure North Korean leaders to cease their provocative behavior and abandon and 

dismantle their nuclear and missile programs, and comply with all relevant United Nations Security Council 

resolutions; 

(9) calls on the United States to fully enforce all existing economic sanctions on North Korea and to seek to 

continuously adapt the sanctions regime to address evasive techniques employed by the North Korean regime; 

and 

(10) calls on the Secretary of State to undertake a 

comprehensive and rigorous diplomatic effort to urge al-
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lies and other countries to fully enforce, and build upon, 

existing international sanctions on North Korea. 

Attest: 

Clerk.