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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1369 

To prohibit lifting of United States sanctions imposed with respect to North 

Korea. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 26, 2019 

Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To prohibit lifting of United States sanctions imposed with 

respect to North Korea. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON LIFTING OF UNITED STATES 

4 SANCTIONS IMPOSED WITH RESPECT TO 

5 NORTH KOREA. 

6 (a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 

7 (1) The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 

8 (North Korea) has a history of cheating on nuclear 

9 accords. 


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1 (2) The United Nations Commission of Inquiry 

2 on Human Rights in North Korea concluded in 2014 

3 that Kim Jong Un and the North Korean leadership 

4 was perpetrating ‘‘unspeakable atrocities’’ against 

5 its own people on a vast scale and committed ‘‘wide6 spread, systematic, and gross violations’’ that 

7 amount to crimes against humanity. 

8 (3) The chair of the United Nations Commis9 sion of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea 

10 called these atrocities ‘‘strikingly similar’’ to crimes 

11 committed by Nazi Germany in World War II, in12 cluding execution, enslavement, starvation, rape, and 

13 forced abortion, and warned Kim Jong Un of his 

14 own personal culpability in a special letter attached 

15 to the report. 

16 (4) Under Kim Jong Un’s leadership, there are 

17 reports of newborn babies in prison being fed to 

18 guard dogs, punishment and possible execution of 

19 starving prisoners caught digging for edible plants, 

20 and forced abortions. 

21 (5) Kim Jong Un, after taking over the leader22 ship of North Korea, launched political purges, en23 compassing relatives, including his uncle and half24 brother, who was murdered by a chemical weapon in 

25 Malaysia in 2017. 


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1 (6) Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American col2 lege student, was brutally tortured by the North Ko3 rean regime under Kim Jong Un and died shortly 

4 after his release from North Korea. 

5 (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con6 gress that— 

7 (1) any negotiation with North Korea regarding 

8 denuclearization should include an equivalent de9 mand for transparency regarding North Korea’s 

10 human rights situation; 

11 (2) the United States should not trust Kim 

12 Jong Un and the leadership of North Korea to vol13 untarily and peacefully end its nuclear program as 

14 long as they continue to commit mass atrocities 

15 against the North Korean people; and 

16 (3) no sanctions relief should be provided to 

17 North Korea until the President certifies to the ap18 propriate congressional committees that the lives of 

19 ordinary North Koreans are improving and the Kim 

20 family has made progress on North Korea’s deplor21 able human rights situation. 

22 (c) LIMITATION ON WAIVER OF SANCTIONS.—The 

23 President may not waive, suspend, reduce, provide relief 

24 from, or otherwise limit the application of United States 

25 sanctions imposed with respect to North Korea until the 


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1 President certifies to the appropriate congressional com2 mittees that North Korea— 

3 (1) has repudiated and ceased engaging in 

4 gross human rights abuses, including operation of 

5 slave-labor and political prisoner camps; 

6 (2) has established a disclosure and trans7 parency process to identify crimes committed by the 

8 North Korean regime against its people; and 

9 (3) has issued a formal apology to the family of 

10 Otto Warmbier for the unlawful detention, torture, 

11 and murder of Otto Warmbier. 

12 (d) APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.— 

13 In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional com14 mittees’’ means— 

15 (1) the congressional defense committees (as 

16 such term is defined in section 101 of title 10, 

17 United States Code); and 

18 (2) the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 

19 Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 

20 House of Representatives. 

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