112TH CONGRESS 

2ND SESSION H. CON. RES. 145 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1695, 

unanimously adopted on July 15, 2006, following a series 

of North Korean missile firings on July 5, 2006, specifically condemned the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (North Korea) recent test-firing of a series of missiles, and demanded that the 
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North-East Asian country suspend all ballistic missile related activity and reinstate its moratorium on missile 

launches; 

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1695 

also required all Member States, in accordance with their 

national legal authorities and legislation and consistent 

with international law, to exercise vigilance and prevent 

missile and missile-related items, materials, goods, and 

technology being transferred to North Korea’s missile or 

weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes, and to 

prevent the procurement of missiles or missile relateditems, materials, goods, and technology from North 

Korea, and the transfer of any financial resources in relation to North Korea’s missile or WMD programmes; 

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, 

adopted on October 14, 2006, decided that North Korea 

shall suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile 

programme and in this context re-establish its pre-existing commitments to a moratorium on missile launching; 

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718 

also imposed a ban on the sales of military equipment 

and luxury goods to North Korea as well as a ban on 

technology transfers; 

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718 

further required Member States to prevent the travel of 

North Korean officials connected to the ballistic missile 

or nuclear programs, the inspection of cargo from North 

Korea to assure it was not missile, WMD, or nuclear-related, and the immediate freezing of funds, other financial assets, and economic resources that support these illicit North Korean activities; 
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Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874, 

adopted on June 12, 2009, called upon Member States 

to inspect, seize, and dispose of proscribed illicit North 

Korea items related to its missile, nuclear, and WMD 

programmes and to prevent the provision of financial 

services or the transfer to, through, or from their territory of any financial or other assets or resources that 

could contribute to North Korea’s nuclear-related, ballistic missile-related, or other WMD-related programmes 

or activities, and by denying fuel or supplies to service 

the vessels carrying them; 

Whereas, on December 12, 2012, in flagrant defiance of past 

United Nations Security Council resolutions, the international community, and its Six-Party partners, North 

Korea launched a three-stage, long-range missile, which 

overflew Japanese territory near Okinawa and dropped 

debris into the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and 

waters adjacent to the Philippines; 

Whereas North Korea’s latest provocative and defiant action 

represents a direct threat to the United States Armed 

Forces in the Asia/Pacific region and regional allies and 

friends, including Australia, Japan, the Philippines, the 

Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan and is a potential future threat to the United States and its people, 

including those residing in Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, and 

the west coast of the United States mainland; and 

Whereas there has been extensive cooperation on missile development and military cooperation between the Governments of North Korea and Iran that dates back to the 

1980s: Now, therefore, be it 
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1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 

2 concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that— 

3 (1) the North Korean missile launch of Decem4 ber 12, 2012, represents a flagrant violation of 

5 United Nations Security Council resolutions 825 

6 (1993), 1540 (2004), 1695 (2006), 1718 (2006), 

7 and 1874 (2009), that North Korea continues to 

8 defy the United Nations, its Six-Party partners, and 

9 the international community, and that the Member 

10 States should immediately impose sanctions covered 

11 by these resolutions and censure North Korea; 

12 (2) all current restrictions against the Govern13 ment of North Korea, including sanctions that ban 

14 the importation into the United States of North Ko15 rean products and goods, should remain in effect 

16 until the Government of North Korea no longer en17 gages in activities that threaten United States inter18 ests and global peace and stability; 

19 (3) the Government of China should cooperate 

20 with the United States in pursuit of a new round of 

21 United Nations Security Council sanctions, to pres22 sure its North Korean partner, redouble its efforts 

23 to prevent Chinese companies from transferring mili24 tary and dual-use technologies to North Korea, and 

25 to crack down on transshipments through China 
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1 that relate to North Korean military, missile, and 

2 nuclear programs and proliferation activities; and 

3 (4) North Korea should abandon and dismantle 

4 its provocative missile and nuclear weapons pro5 grams, cease its proliferation activities, and come 

6 into immediate compliance with all relevant inter7 national agreements and United Nations Security 

8 Council resolutions. 

Passed the House of Representatives January 1, 

2013. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 
112TH CONGRESS 

2ND SESSION H. CON. RES. 145 

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 

Calling for universal condemnation of the North 

Korean missile launch of December 12, 2012.