4 years in prison for attempting to assassinate Park 
Sang-hak, a North Korean dissident in exile. 
(11) In December 2012, according to South 
Korean press reports, South Korean prosecutors de-
termined that North Korean agents assassinated 
Kim Chang-hwan, a human rights activist helping 
North Korean refugees, in Dandong, China in Au-
gust 2011, using a poisoned needle. 
(12) According to a report in the Los Angeles 
Times, a North Korean agent was suspected in an 
attempt to assassinate another human rights activist 
with a poisoned needle in Yanji, China, the following 
day. 
(13) North Korea has committed violent acts 
directly against its own citizens abroad. In 2013, 
news reports highlighted an attempt to kidnap a 
North Korean student in Paris. 
(14) On April 18, 2013, Michael Flynn, the Di-
rector of the Defense Intelligence Agency testified 
that Syria’s liquid-propellant missile program de-
pends on essential foreign equipment and assistance, 
primarily from North Korean entities. Further state-
ments by United States Government officials report 
that North Korea helped Syria build the Al Kibar 
nuclear reactor, which Israel destroyed in 2007, and 
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could have been used to produce plutonium for nu-
clear weapons. 
(15) In the case of Chaim Kaplan v. Hezbollah 
(case number 09–646), a United States district 
court found in 2014 that North Korea materially 
supported terrorist attacks by Hezbollah, a des-
ignated Foreign Terrorist Organization, against 
Israel in 2006. 
(16) In July 2014, press reports indicated that 
militants from Hamas, a designated Foreign Ter-
rorist Organization, attempted to negotiate a new 
arms deal with North Korea for missiles and com-
munications equipment that would have allowed the 
militants to maintain their armed terrorist attacks 
against Israel. Security officials announced that the 
deal between Hamas and North Korea was worth 
hundreds of thousands of dollars and was handled 
by a Lebanese-based trading company. 
(17) On November 24, 2014, a hacker group 
that identified itself as the ‘‘Guardians of Peace’’ 
leaked confidential data from the film studio Sony 
Pictures Entertainment. The data included personal 
information about Sony Pictures employees, e-mails 
between employees, information about executive sala-
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ries at the company, copies of then-unreleased Sony 
films, and other information. 
(18) On December 16, 2015, the ‘‘Guardians of 
Peace’’ sent a message to Sony Pictures, to ‘‘clearly 
show it to you at the very time and places ‘The 
Interview’ be shown . . . how bitter fate those who 
seek fun in terror should be doomed to’’. The mes-
sage further stated, ‘‘The world will be full of fear’’, 
‘‘[. . .] Remember the 11th of September 2001’’, 
and ‘‘We recommend you to keep yourself distant 
from the places at that time.’’. The threat caused 
theaters across the United States to cancel showings 
of ‘‘The Interview’’ and caused Sony Pictures to 
cancel the release of the film in theaters. 
(19) On December 19, 2015, the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation concluded that North Korea 
was responsible for the cyber attack on Sony Pic-
tures Entertainment and the threat against the 
movie theaters, and that the ‘‘Guardians of Peace’’ 
was a unit of North Korea’s Reconnaissance General 
Bureau, its foreign intelligence service. 
(20) In March 2015, the South Korean govern-
ment publicly accused North Korea of responsibility 
for a December 2014 cyber attack against multiple 
nuclear power plants in South Korea, stated that the 
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attacks were intended to cause a malfunction at the 
plants’ reactors, and described the attacks as acts of 
‘‘cyber-terror targeting our country’’. 
(21) On April 13, 2015, the U.S. District Court 
for the District of Columbia, in the matter of Kim 
v. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (case 
number 13–7147), awarded Rev. Kim’s family 
$330,000,000 in compensatory and punitive dam-
ages against the Government of North Korea for the 
kidnapping, torture, and murder of Rev. Kim. 
(22) On May 17, 2015, prosecutors in Seoul 
announced the arrest and indictment of three South 
Koreans for conspiring to murder Hwang Jang-yop 
and other North Korean dissidents in exile, at the 
behest of the Government of North Korea. 
(23) On October 22, 2015, Ambassador Sung 
Kim, Special Representative for North Korea Policy 
with the U.S. Department of State, testified before 
the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Ter-
rorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade that North Ko-
rea’s ‘‘conduct poses a growing threat to the United 
States, our friends in the region, and the global non-
proliferation regime’’ and Ms. Hilary Batjer John-
son, Deputy Coordinator for Homeland Security, 
Screening, and Designations with the U.S. Depart-
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ment of State noted that ‘‘weapons transfers that 
violate nonproliferation or missile control regimes 
could be a relevant factor for consideration, depend-
ing on the circumstances, consistent with the statu-
tory criteria for designation as a state sponsor of 
terrorism’’. 
(24) North Korea was designated a State Spon-
sor of Terrorism on January 20, 1988, for repeat-
edly providing support of acts of international ter-
rorism. 
(25) However, on October 11, 2008, North Ko-
rea’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism 
was rescinded, following commitments by the Gov-
ernment of North Korea to completely, verifiably, 
and irreversibly dismantle its nuclear weapons pro-
gram. 
(26) Consequences of a State Sponsors of Ter-
rorism designation include a ban on arms-related ex-
ports and sales; restrictions on exports of dual-use 
items; restrictions on foreign assistance; financial 
sanctions against transactions with the designated 
government; imposition of miscellaneous trade and 
other restrictions; and potential liability in United 
States courts for acts that fall within the terrorism 
exception of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. 
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The Criminal Code also prohibits financial trans-
actions by United States persons with the govern-
ments of State Sponsors of Terrorism listed states. 
Issuers of securities must disclose in their public fil-
ings any investments in states whose governments 
sponsor terrorism. Finally, a designation requires 
United States representatives to oppose any benefits 
or extensions of credit to the listed states by inter-
national financial institutions. 
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of the 
Congress that North Korea meets the criteria for designa-
tion as a state sponsor of terrorism and should be so des-
ignated. 
(c) REPORT; DETERMINATION OR JUSTIFICATION.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional com-
mittees a report that finds, with respect to each of 
the acts described in paragraphs (1) to (23) of sub-
section (a), whether— 
(A) the Government of North Korea, in-
cluding any agents or instrumentalities of the 
Government of North Korea, directly or indi-
rectly, committed, conspired to commit, at-
tempted, aided, or abetted such act; and 
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(B) such act constitutes support for inter-
national terrorism. 
(2) DETERMINATION
OR
JUSTIFICATION.—If 
the Secretary finds that the Government of North 
Korea, including any agents or instrumentalities of 
the Government of North Korea, directly or indi-
rectly, committed, conspired to commit, attempted, 
aided, or abetted any of the acts described in para-
graphs (1) to (22) of subsection (a), and that any 
such act constitutes support for international ter-
rorism, the Secretary of State shall also submit to 
the appropriate congressional committees— 
(A) a determination that North Korea is a 
state sponsor of terrorism; or 
(B) a detailed justification as to why the 
conduct described in the report required under 
paragraph (1) does not meet the legal criteria 
for such a determination. 
(3) INCLUSION.—The report required by para-
graph (1) shall also be included in the first annual 
report required to be submitted under section 140 of 
the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. 2656f) on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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(d) FORM.—The report required by subsection (c)(1) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include 
a classified annex, if appropriate. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives. 
(2) NORTH KOREA.—The term ‘‘North Korea’’ 
means the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. 
(3) STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM.—The term 
‘‘state sponsor of terrorism’’ means a country the 
government of which the Secretary of State has de-
termined, for purposes of section 6(j) of the Export 
Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 4605(j)) (as 
in effect pursuant to the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act), section 620A of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2371), section 40 
of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2780), 
or any other provision of law, is a government that 
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has repeatedly provided support for acts of inter-
national terrorism. 
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