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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 92 

Condemning North Korea’s development of multiple intercontinental ballistic 

missiles, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 6, 2017 

Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. 

MOULTON, Mr. YOHO, and Mr. SHERMAN) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in 

addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 

provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

RESOLUTION 

Condemning North Korea’s development of multiple 

intercontinental ballistic missiles, and for other purposes. 

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 grave threats to the United States, South 

Korea, United States allies, and global security; 

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

States, and constitutes a credible threat to the security 

of the American people; 


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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 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; 

Whereas, on April 14, 2016, Admiral William Gortney, Commander of U.S. Northern Command, in a hearing before 

the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives, stated ‘‘they [North Korea] have the ability 

on the KN–O8 to I assess that he has the ability to miniaturize a nuclear weapon and range the homeland with 

that warhead’’; 

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 said was a warhead that could 

be standardized for its ballistic missiles; 


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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 violated multiple 

United Nations Security Council Resolutions over 20 

times, 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); and 

Whereas the threat of a nuclear North Korea with a functional and operational intercontinental ballistic missile 

program with nuclear warheads poses a direct threat to 

the United States: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) condemns North Korea’s development of 

3 multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs); 


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1 (2) urges the prompt deployment of the Ter2 minal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system 

3 in South Korea to counter North Korea’s nuclear 

4 missile threat, which supports an alliance security 

5 decision; 

6 (3) reaffirms the United States support of a 

7 layered, interoperable, multi-tier missile defense sys8 tem to protect Americans and allies on the Korean 

9 Peninsula; 

10 (4) supports continued bilateral security co11 operation between the United States and South 

12 Korea and the consideration of additional measures 

13 to strengthen the alliance, including expanded for14 eign military sales, technology development, and 

15 joint exercises, and other actions as appropriate; 

16 (5) reaffirms, in view of the ICBM threat by 

17 North Korea, the commitment of the United States 

18 to its alliances and trilateral missile defense coopera19 tion agreements with South Korea and Japan, which 

20 are critical for the preservation of peace and sta21 bility in Northeast Asia and throughout the world; 

22 (6) supports the intelligence sharing agreement 

23 between Japan and South Korea signed on Novem24 ber 23, 2016, concerning the direct exchange of in25 telligence on North Korea threats; 


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1 (7) calls upon the People’s Republic of China to 

2 pressure North Korean leaders to cease their provoc3 ative behavior, abandon and dismantle their nuclear 

4 and missile programs through the curtailing of vital 

5 economic support and trade that support the Gov6 ernment of North Korea, and comply with all rel7 evant United Nations Security Council Resolutions; 

8 and 

9 (8) calls on the United States to apply all avail10 able economic sanctions on North Korea and cooper11 ate with allies and other countries to impose addi12 tional sanctions on North Korea. 

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