IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 866 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning negotiations 
with North Korea. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 1, 2018 
Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania submitted the following resolution; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives 
concerning negotiations with North Korea. 
Whereas the leadership of the Democratic People’s Republic 
of Korea (DPRK), including its current heir, Kim Jong 
Un, has committed grave atrocities against its own people 
and acts of aggression against its neighbors; 
Whereas up to 120,000 are estimated to be imprisoned in 
brutal North Korean gulags, political prison camps 
known as the kwan-li-so; 
Whereas the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on 
Human Rights in North Korea concluded in 2014 that 
Kim Jong Un and DPRK leadership was perpetrating 
‘‘unspeakable atrocities’’ against its own people on a vast 
scale and committed ‘‘widespread, systematic, and gross 
violations’’ that amount to crimes against humanity; 
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Whereas the Chair of the Commission called these atrocities 
‘‘strikingly similar’’ to crimes committed by Nazi Ger-
many in World War II, including execution, enslavement, 
starvation, rape, and forced abortion, and warned Kim 
Jong Un of his own personal culpability in a special let-
ter attached to the report; 
Whereas under Kim Jong Un’s leadership, there are reports 
of newborn babies in prison being fed to guard dogs, pun-
ishment and possible execution of starving prisoners 
caught digging for edible plants, and forced abortions; 
Whereas the Commission stated that ‘‘persons who are forc-
ibly repatriated from China are commonly subjected to 
torture, arbitrary detention, summary execution, forced 
abortion, and other forms of sexual violence’’; 
Whereas the Commission further observed that ‘‘many 
[North Korean] suspects die . . . as a result of torture, 
deliberate starvation, or illnesses developed or aggravated 
by the terrible living conditions’’; 
Whereas according to the Commission, Kim Jong Un ‘‘con-
tinues allocating a significant amount of the state’s re-
sources for the purchase and importation of luxury 
goods’’ and diverting state funds to North Korea’s nu-
clear and military programs, while a majority of North 
Korea’s population suffers; 
Whereas according to the Commission, crimes against hu-
manity in North Korea have been committed ‘‘pursuant 
to policies at the highest level of the state’’; 
Whereas Kim Jong Un, after taking over the leadership of 
North Korea, launched political purges, encompassing 
relatives, including his uncle and half-brother, who was 
murdered by a chemical weapon in Malaysia in 2017; 
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Whereas Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American college stu-
dent, was brutally tortured by the North Korean regime 
under Kim Jong Un and died shortly after his release 
from North Korea; 
Whereas Kim Jong Un has expanded an illicit nuclear weap-
ons program and directly threatened the United States 
and its allies; 
Whereas the strength of the United States stems from its val-
ues and principles; 
Whereas the National Security Strategy of 2017 states that 
the ‘‘America’s values and influence, underwritten by 
American power, make the world more free, secure, and 
prosperous,’’ and ‘‘[W]e will never lose sight of our val-
ues and their capacity to inspire, uplift, and renew.’’: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) President Trump’s statement on April 26, 
2018, that Kim Jong Un is an ‘‘honorable man’’ is 
an affront to American values and grossly incon-
sistent with the reality in North Korea and the 
President’s own public statements about the nature 
of the regime; and 
(2) President Trump should ensure that any 
negotiations with North Korea—and United States 
policy towards North Korea, generally—incorporate 
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United States values, including concern for human 
rights and the welfare of the North Korean people. 
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