I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 757 
To improve the enforcement of sanctions against the Government of North 
Korea, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 5, 2015 
Mr. ROYCE (for himself, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. POE of Texas, Mr. SHERMAN, Mr. 
SALMON, and Mr. KEATING) introduced the following bill; which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Com-
mittees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, Financial Services, and Over-
sight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To improve the enforcement of sanctions against 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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act of 2015’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
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Sec. 3. Definitions. 
TITLE I—INVESTIGATIONS, PROHIBITED CONDUCT, AND 
PENALTIES 
Sec. 101. Statement of policy. 
Sec. 102. Investigations. 
Sec. 103. Briefing to Congress. 
Sec. 104. Designation of persons for prohibited conduct and mandatory and 
discretionary designation and sanctions authorities. 
Sec. 105. Forfeiture of property. 
TITLE II—SANCTIONS AGAINST NORTH KOREAN PROLIFERATION, 
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, ILLICIT ACTIVITIES, AND SIGNIFI-
CANT ACTIVITIES UNDERMINING CYBER SECURITY 
Sec. 201. Determinations with respect to North Korea as a jurisdiction of pri-
mary money laundering concern. 
Sec. 202. Ensuring the consistent enforcement of United Nations Security 
Council resolutions and financial restrictions on North Korea. 
Sec. 203. Proliferation prevention sanctions. 
Sec. 204. Procurement sanctions. 
Sec. 205. Enhanced inspections authorities. 
Sec. 206. Travel sanctions. 
Sec. 207. Exemptions, waivers, and removals of designation. 
Sec. 208. Report on those responsible for knowingly engaging in significant ac-
tivities undermining cyber security. 
TITLE III—PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS 
Sec. 301. Information technology. 
Sec. 302. Report on North Korean prison camps. 
Sec. 303. Report on persons who are responsible for serious human rights 
abuses or censorship in North Korea. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL AUTHORITIES 
Sec. 401. Suspension of sanctions and other measures. 
Sec. 402. Termination of sanctions and other measures. 
Sec. 403. Authority to consolidate reports. 
Sec. 404. Regulations. 
Sec. 405. Effective date. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Government of North Korea has re-
peatedly violated its commitments to the complete, 
verifiable, irreversible dismantlement of its nuclear 
weapons programs, and has willfully violated mul-
tiple United Nations Security Council resolutions 
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calling for it to cease its development, testing, and 
production of weapons of mass destruction. 
(2) North Korea poses a grave risk for the pro-
liferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of 
mass destruction. 
(3) The Government of North Korea has been 
implicated repeatedly in money laundering and illicit 
activities, including prohibited arms sales, narcotics 
trafficking, the counterfeiting of United States cur-
rency, and the counterfeiting of intellectual property 
of United States persons. 
(4) The Government of North Korea has, both 
historically and recently, repeatedly sponsored acts 
of international terrorism, including attempts to as-
sassinate defectors and human rights activists, re-
peated threats of violence against foreign persons, 
leaders, newspapers, and cities, and the shipment of 
weapons to terrorists and state sponsors of ter-
rorism. 
(5) North Korea has unilaterally withdrawn 
from the 1953 Armistice Agreement that ended the 
Korean War, and committed provocations against 
South Korea in 2010 by sinking the warship 
Cheonan and killing 46 of her crew, and by shelling 
Yeonpyeong Island, killing four South Koreans. 
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(6) North Korea maintains a system of brutal 
political prison camps that contain as many as 
120,000 men, women, and children, who live in atro-
cious living conditions with insufficient food, cloth-
ing, and medical care, and under constant fear of 
torture or arbitrary execution. 
(7) The Congress reaffirms the purposes of the 
North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004 contained 
in section 4 of such Act (22 U.S.C. 7802). 
(8) North Korea has prioritized weapons pro-
grams and the procurement of luxury goods, in defi-
ance of United Nations Security Council resolutions, 
and in gross disregard of the needs of its people. 
(9) The President has determined that the Gov-
ernment of North Korea is responsible for knowingly 
engaging in significant activities undermining cyber 
security with respect to United States persons and 
interests, and for threats of violence against the ci-
vilian population of the United States. 
(10) Persons, including financial institutions, 
who engage in transactions with, or provide financial 
services to, the Government of North Korea and its 
financial institutions without establishing sufficient 
financial safeguards against North Korea’s use of 
these transactions to promote proliferation, weapons 
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trafficking, human rights violations, illicit activity, 
and the purchase of luxury goods, aid and abet 
North Korea’s misuse of the international financial 
system, and also violate the intent of relevant United 
Nations Security Council resolutions. 
(11) The Government of North Korea’s conduct 
poses an imminent threat to the security of the 
United States and its allies, to the global economy, 
to the safety of members of the United States 
Armed Forces, to the integrity of the global financial 
system, to the integrity of global nonproliferation 
programs, and to the people of North Korea. 
(12) The Congress seeks, through this legisla-
tion, to use nonmilitary means to address this crisis, 
to provide diplomatic leverage to negotiate necessary 
changes in North Korea’s conduct, and to ease the 
suffering of the people of North Korea. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) 
APPLICABLE
EXECUTIVE
ORDER.—The 
term ‘‘applicable Executive order’’ means— 
(A) Executive Order No. 13382 (2005), 
13466 (2008), 13551 (2010), or 13570 (2011), 
to the extent that such Executive order author-
izes the imposition of sanctions on persons for 
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conduct, or prohibits transactions or activities, 
involving the Government of North Korea; or 
(B) any Executive order adopted on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, to 
the extent that such Executive order authorizes 
the imposition of sanctions on persons for con-
duct, or prohibits transactions or activities, in-
volving the Government of North Korea. 
(2) APPLICABLE
UNITED
NATIONS
SECURITY 
COUNCIL
RESOLUTION.—The 
term 
‘‘applicable 
United 
Nations 
Security 
Council 
resolution’’ 
means— 
(A) United Nations Security Council Reso-
lution 1695 (2006), 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 
2087 (2013), or 2094 (2013); or 
(B) any United Nations Security Council 
resolution adopted on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, to the extent that such 
resolution authorizes the imposition of sanctions 
on persons for conduct, or prohibits trans-
actions or activities, involving the Government 
of North Korea. 
(3) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
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