H. Res. 92 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
April 3, 2017. 
Whereas the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 
(DPRK), also known as North Korea, possesses a bal-
listic missile and nuclear weapons development program 
that poses a grave threat to the United States, United 
States allies South Korea and Japan, and to regional and 
global security; 
Whereas North Korea’s ballistic missile program has dem-
onstrated an increasing ability to reach the United 
States, which constitutes a credible and growing threat to 
the security of the American people; 
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 Repub-
lic, which the United States has designated as state spon-
sors of terrorism; 
Whereas, on January 6, 2016, North Korea detonated a nu-
clear 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;
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Whereas according to the U.S. Intelligence Community’s 
2016 Worldwide Threat Assessment, North Korea is 
‘‘committed to developing a long-range, nuclear-armed 
missile that is capable of posing a direct threat to the 
United States; it has publicly displayed its KN08 road- 
mobile ICBM on multiple occasions’’; 
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 chal-
lenge from North Korea and its provocative acts in the 
nuclear missile domain’’; 
Whereas, on August 24, 2016, North Korea successfully test-
ed a submarine-launched ballistic missile, firing the mis-
sile over 300 miles from a submerged submarine; 
Whereas, on September 9, 2016, North Korea conducted its 
fifth nuclear test, which it claimed was a warhead that 
could be miniaturized for its ballistic missiles; 
Whereas, on September 15, 2016, Admiral Harry Harris, 
Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, stated ‘‘Com-
bining 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 Ash-
ton 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 and repeatedly vio-
lated multiple United Nations Security Council resolu-
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tions, 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 im-
provement in their capabilities in the past year as a re-
sult 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); 
Whereas, on February 11, 2017, North Korea launched an 
intermediate-range ballistic missile off its eastern coast 
while President Donald Trump hosted Japanese Prime 
Minister Shinzo Abe on an official visit to the United 
States; 
Whereas, on February 18, 2017, the People’s Republic of 
China announced that it would suspend all coal imports 
from North Korea, a significant source of revenue to the 
North Korean regime; 
Whereas, on February 27, 2017, the United Nations Panel 
of Experts on North Korea determined that ‘‘The Demo-
cratic People’s Republic of Korea is flouting sanctions 
through trade in prohibited goods, with evasion tech-
niques that are increasing in scale, scope and sophistica-
tion.’’; 
Whereas, on March 6, 2017, North Korea launched four in-
termediate range missiles, three of which landed approxi-
mately 200 miles off the coast of Japan; 
Whereas South Korea and the United States have made an 
alliance decision to deploy the Terminal High Altitude
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alliance, including expanded foreign military sales, joint 
exercises, and other actions as appropriate; 
(6) reaffirms, in view of the ICBM threat by North 
Korea, the commitment of the United States to its alli-
ances and to trilateral cooperation with South Korea and 
Japan, which is critical for the preservation of peace and 
stability in Northeast Asia and throughout the world; 
(7) supports and urges the full implementation of 
the intelligence sharing agreement between Japan and 
South Korea signed on November 23, 2016, concerning 
the direct exchange of intelligence on North Korean 
threats; 
(8) calls upon the People’s Republic of China to use 
its considerable leverage to pressure North Korean lead-
ers to cease their provocative behavior and abandon and 
dismantle their nuclear and missile programs, and com-
ply with all relevant United Nations Security Council 
resolutions; 
(9) calls on the United States to fully enforce all ex-
isting economic sanctions on North Korea and to seek to 
continuously adapt the sanctions regime to address eva-
sive techniques employed by the North Korean regime; 
and 
(10) calls on the Secretary of State to undertake a 
comprehensive and rigorous diplomatic effort to urge al-
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lies and other countries to fully enforce, and build upon, 
existing international sanctions on North Korea. 
Attest: 
Clerk.