I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1980 
To continue restrictions against and prohibit diplomatic recognition of the 
Government of North Korea, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 21, 2009 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. MANZULLO, 
Mr. ROYCE, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. FORBES, Mr. WOLF, 
Mr. KING of New York, Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr. ROHRABACHER, and Mr. 
POE of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
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 2009’’. 
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 have arrived in North Korea in March 2009 
‘‘to help Pyongyang prepare for a rocket launch’’, 
including 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. 
SEC. 3. CONTINUATION OF RESTRICTIONS AGAINST THE 
GOVERNMENT OF NORTH KOREA. 
Notwithstanding the decision by the Secretary of 
State on October 11, 2008, to rescind the designation of 
North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, restrictions 
against the Government of North Korea that were im-
posed by reason of a determination of the Secretary of 
State that the Government of North Korea, for purposes 
of section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 
(as continued in effect pursuant to the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act), section 40 of the Arms 
Export Control Act, section 620A of the Foreign Assist-
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