I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 673 
To continue restrictions against and prohibit diplomatic recognition of the 
Government of North Korea, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 13, 2013 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. CHABOT, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. LANCE, 
Mr. FRANKS of Arizona, Mr. WILSON of South Carolina, Mr. BILIRAKIS, 
Mr. WEBER of Texas, and Mr. DUNCAN of South Carolina) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Af-
fairs, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To continue restrictions against and prohibit diplomatic rec-
ognition of the Government of North Korea, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘North Korea Sanctions 
and Diplomatic Nonrecognition Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) North Korean negotiators in the Six-Party 
diplomatic process did not act in good faith by their 
refusal to agree to a transparent verification process 
for denuclearization consistent with ‘‘international 
standards’’, including provisions for nuclear sam-
pling, following North Korea’s removal on October 
11, 2008, from the list of state sponsors of terrorism 
maintained by the Department of State. 
(2) International press reports indicate that 
North Korea has continued to provide support to 
Iran in the areas of missile technology and nuclear 
development and has provided Iran’s surrogates, 
Hezbollah and Hamas, with both missile technology 
and training in tunneling techniques with which to 
attack Israel, an ally of the United States. 
(3) International press reports indicate that 
North Korea was engaged for a number of years in 
assistance to Syria in the construction of a nuclear 
reactor in the Syrian desert which was destroyed in 
a strike by Israeli forces on September 6, 2007. 
(4) North Korean negotiators continue to refuse 
to address in a humane and sincere manner the 
issue of the abduction of civilians of Japan and the 
Republic of Korea, both allies of the United States, 
as well as the abductions of citizens from a number 
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of other countries, including France, Lebanon, Ro-
mania, and Thailand. 
(5) Defectors coming out of North Korea have 
provided testimony that United States permanent 
resident, Reverend Kim Dong-shik, the spouse and 
father of United States citizens, was tortured and 
murdered inside North Korea after his abduction by 
Pyongyang’s agents on the Chinese border in Janu-
ary 2000 and that his remains are currently being 
held at a military facility inside North Korea. 
(6) Congress authoritatively expressed its view, 
in section 202(b)(2) of the North Korean Human 
Rights Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–333; 22 U.S.C. 
7832(b)(2)) that ‘‘United States nonhumanitarian 
assistance to North Korea shall be contingent on 
North Korea’s substantial progress’’ on human 
rights improvements, release of and accounting for 
abductees, family reunification, reform of North Ko-
rea’s labor camp system, and the decriminalization 
of political expression, none of which has occurred. 
(7) Congress further authoritatively expressed 
its view, in section 2 of the North Korean Human 
Rights Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 
110–346) that ‘‘human rights and humanitarian 
conditions inside North Korea are deplorable’’ and 
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that ‘‘North Korean refugees remain acutely vulner-
able’’. 
(8) Congress has determined that any missile 
test or launch conducted by North Korea would be 
in direct violation of United Nations Security Coun-
cil resolution 1695, adopted on July 16, 2006, which 
‘‘condemns the multiple launches by the DPRK 
(North Korea) of ballistic missiles on July 5 2006 
local time’’, and United Nations Security Council 
Resolution 1718, adopted on October 9, 2006, which 
‘‘demands that the DPRK (North Korea) not con-
duct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic 
missile’’ and ‘‘decides that the DPRK shall suspend 
all activities related to its ballistic missile pro-
gramme and in this context re-establish its pre-exist-
ing commitments to a moratorium on missile launch-
ing’’, and further determines that the resulting sanc-
tions imposed under such resolution 1718 would 
again come into full effect following a missile test or 
launch. 
(9) Congress has further determined that a re-
turn by North Korea to the Six-Party diplomatic 
process following any missile test or launch by 
Pyongyang must include a firm and transparent 
commitment to the complete, verifiable and irrevers-
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ible dismantlement of all of North Korea’s nuclear 
programs, including those derived both from pluto-
nium as well as highly enriched uranium. 
(10) Japanese press reports have indicated that 
a delegation of approximately fifteen Iranian missile 
experts arrived in North Korea in March 2009 ‘‘to 
help Pyongyang prepare for a rocket launch’’, in-
cluding senior officials with the Iranian rocket and 
satellite producer Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, 
and that they brought with them a letter from their 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to North Korean 
leader Kim Jong-Il stressing the importance of co-
operating on space technology. 
(11) North Korea, in defiance of the inter-
national community’s efforts to end nuclear pro-
liferation and in violation of its international obliga-
tions, conducted a second underground nuclear test 
on May 25, 2009 (local time), in violation of United 
Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, which re-
sulted in the passage of United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 1874 on June 12, 2009, which 
imposed additional sanctions and inspection require-
ments with regard to North Korea. 
(12) North Korea, according to Western press 
reports, transshipped missile parts, used to run 
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Iran’s solid fuel ballistic missile program, to Tehran 
via Air Iran flights which landed in Beijing, China 
in 2007. 
(13) Press reports in March 2011 indicated 
that opposition forces in Libya, when they took posi-
tions from Qaddafi forces, discovered North Korean 
weapons caches, including rockets and anti-aircraft 
guns, unpacked from crates labeled ‘‘bulldozer 
parts,’’ which would represent a clear violation of 
United Nations sanctions. 
(14) On August 16, 2012, the President signed 
into law the Ambassador James R. Lilley and Con-
gressman Stephen J. Solarz North Korea Human 
Rights Reauthorization Act of 2012 (Public Law 
112–172). 
(15) Congress further authoritatively expressed 
its view in section 2 of Public Law 112–172 that 
‘‘although the transition to the leadership of Kim 
Jong-Un after the death of Kim Jong-Il has intro-
duced new uncertainties and possibilities, the funda-
mental human rights and humanitarian conditions 
inside North Korea remain deplorable, North Ko-
rean refugees remain acutely vulnerable, and the 
findings in the 2004 Act and 2008 Reauthorization 
remain substantially accurate today.’’. 
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(16) Notwithstanding the succession of Kim 
Jong-Un as supreme leader of North Korea fol-
lowing the death of his father in December 2011, 
Pyongyang has continued a policy of horrendous 
human rights violations, including the issuance of 
new ‘‘shoot to kill’’ orders for refugees attempting to 
cross the border into China and an increased reli-
ance on public executions to intimidate the North 
Korean populace. 
(17) The new Kim Jong-Un regime also dis-
played duplicity in its negotiations with the United 
States and other Six-Party partners by launching a 
missile in April 2012 in direct violation of its ‘‘Leap 
Day Agreement’’ to carry out a moratorium on nu-
clear and long-range missile tests. 
(18) Pyongyang defied the international com-
munity and relevant United Nations Security Coun-
cil resolutions by launching a long-range missile on 
December 12, 2012, resulting in the unanimous pas-
sage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 
2087 on January 22, 2013. 
(19) The regime in Pyongyang further defied 
the international community and relevant United 
Nations Security Council resolutions by conducting a 
nuclear test on February 12, 2013. 
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(20) According to the United States Geological 
Survey, seismic activity was detected in North Korea 
with an earthquake measuring 4.9 magnitude, larger 
than the 2006 and 2009 explosions, and the epi-
center of the quake was close to a North Korean nu-
clear test site. 
SEC. 3. CONTINUATION OF RESTRICTIONS AGAINST THE 
GOVERNMENT OF NORTH KOREA. 
(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that subsequent to the 
decision of the Secretary of State on October 11, 2008, 
to rescind the designation of North Korea as a state spon-
sor of terrorism, North Korea has committed acts that can 
be defined as international terrorism or as highly provoca-
tive, including— 
(1) the dispatch of a covert team of two North 
Korean military-trained agents to South Korea with 
orders to assassinate the late North Korean defector 
Hwang Jang-yop who were apprehended by South 
Korean officials in April 2010; 
(2) complicity in the sinking of the South Ko-
rean naval vessel Cheonan on March 26, 2010, 
which resulted in the deaths of 46 South Korean 
naval personnel; 
(3) the shipment of weapons by North Korea, 
seized in Bangkok in December 2009, which were 
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