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Whereas the United States, representing the United Nations 
Forces Command which was a signatory to the Armistice 
Agreement, and with 28,500 of its troops currently sta-
tioned in South Korea, has a stake in the progress to-
wards peace and reunification on the Korean Peninsula; 
Whereas progress towards peace and reunification on the Ko-
rean Peninsula would mean greater security and pros-
perity for the region and the world; 
Whereas, at the end of World War II, Korea officially gained 
independence from Japanese rule, as agreed to at the 
Cairo Conference on November 22, 1943, through No-
vember 26, 1943; 
Whereas, on August 10, 1945, the Korean Peninsula was 
temporarily divided along the 38th parallel into two mili-
tary occupation zones commanded by the United States 
and the Soviet Union; 
Whereas, on June 25, 1950, communist North Korea at-
tacked the South, thereby initiating the Korean War and 
diminishing prospects for a peaceful unification of Korea; 
Whereas, during the Korean War, more than 36,000 mem-
bers of the United States Armed Forces were killed and 
approximately 1,789,000 members of the United States 
Armed Forces served in-theater along with the South Ko-
rean forces and 20 other members of the United Nations 
to secure peace on the Korean Peninsula and in the Asia- 
Pacific region; 
Whereas, since the end of the Korean War era, the United 
States Armed Forces have remained in South Korea to 
promote regional peace;
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Whereas provocations by the Government of North Korea in 
recent years have escalated tension and instability in the 
Asia-Pacific region; 
Whereas North Korea’s human rights abuses, suppression of 
dissent, and hostility to South Korea remain significant 
obstacles to peace and reunification on the Korean Penin-
sula; 
Whereas North Korea’s economic policies have led to extreme 
economic privation for its citizens, whose quality of life 
ranks among the world’s lowest; 
Whereas North Korea’s proliferation of nuclear and missile 
technology threatens international peace and stability; 
Whereas North Korea has systematically violated numerous 
International Atomic Energy Agency and United Nations 
Security Council Resolutions with respect to its nuclear 
weapons and ballistic missile programs; 
Whereas the refusal of the Government of North Korea to 
denuclearize disrupts peace and security on the Korean 
Peninsula; 
Whereas, beginning in 2003, the United States, along with 
the two Koreas, Japan, the People’s Republic of China, 
and the Russian Federation, have engaged in six rounds 
of Six-Party Talks aimed at the verifiable and irreversible 
denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and finding a 
peaceful resolution to the security concerns resulting 
from North Korea’s nuclear development; 
Whereas the three-mile wide buffer zone between the two Ko-
reas, known as the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, is the 
most heavily armed border in the world; 
Whereas the Korean War separated more than 10,000,000 
Korean family members, including 100,000 Korean
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Americans who, after 60 years of separation, are still 
waiting to see their families in North Korea; 
Whereas reunification remains a long-term goal of South 
Korea; 
Whereas South Korea and North Korea are both full mem-
bers of the United Nations, whose stated purpose in-
cludes maintaining international peace and security, and 
to that end ‘‘take effective collective measures for the 
prevention and removal of threats to the peace’’; 
Whereas the Governments and people of the United States 
and South Korea have continuously stood shoulder-to- 
shoulder to promote and defend international peace and 
security, economic prosperity, human rights, and the rule 
of law both on the Korean Peninsula and beyond, and the 
denuclearization of North Korea; and 
Whereas July 27, 2013, marks the 60th anniversary of the 
Armistice Agreement of the Korean War: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress— 
(1) recognizes the historical importance of the 
Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950; 
(2) honors the noble service and sacrifice of 
members of the United States Armed Forces and 
the armed forces of allied countries that have served 
in Korea since 1950; 
(3) reaffirms the commitment of the United 
States to its alliance with South Korea for the bet-
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terment of peace and prosperity on the Korean Pe-
ninsula; and 
(4) calls on North Korea to respect the funda-
mental human rights of its citizens, abandon and 
dismantle its nuclear weapons program, and end its 
nuclear and missile proliferation as integral steps to-
ward peace and eventual reunification. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 31, 2013. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 41 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Encouraging peace and reunification on the Korean 
Peninsula.