•HCON 145 EH 
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874, 
adopted on June 12, 2009, called upon Member States 
to inspect, seize, and dispose of proscribed illicit North 
Korea items related to its missile, nuclear, and WMD 
programmes and to prevent the provision of financial 
services or the transfer to, through, or from their terri-
tory of any financial or other assets or resources that 
could contribute to North Korea’s nuclear-related, bal-
listic missile-related, or other WMD-related programmes 
or activities, and by denying fuel or supplies to service 
the vessels carrying them; 
Whereas, on December 12, 2012, in flagrant defiance of past 
United Nations Security Council resolutions, the inter-
national community, and its Six-Party partners, North 
Korea launched a three-stage, long-range missile, which 
overflew Japanese territory near Okinawa and dropped 
debris into the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and 
waters adjacent to the Philippines; 
Whereas North Korea’s latest provocative and defiant action 
represents a direct threat to the United States Armed 
Forces in the Asia/Pacific region and regional allies and 
friends, including Australia, Japan, the Philippines, the 
Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan and is a po-
tential future threat to the United States and its people, 
including those residing in Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, and 
the west coast of the United States mainland; and 
Whereas there has been extensive cooperation on missile de-
velopment and military cooperation between the Govern-
ments of North Korea and Iran that dates back to the 
1980s: Now, therefore, be it
•HCON 145 EH 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that— 
(1) the North Korean missile launch of Decem-
ber 12, 2012, represents a flagrant violation of 
United Nations Security Council resolutions 825 
(1993), 1540 (2004), 1695 (2006), 1718 (2006), 
and 1874 (2009), that North Korea continues to 
defy the United Nations, its Six-Party partners, and 
the international community, and that the Member 
States should immediately impose sanctions covered 
by these resolutions and censure North Korea; 
(2) all current restrictions against the Govern-
ment of North Korea, including sanctions that ban 
the importation into the United States of North Ko-
rean products and goods, should remain in effect 
until the Government of North Korea no longer en-
gages in activities that threaten United States inter-
ests and global peace and stability; 
(3) the Government of China should cooperate 
with the United States in pursuit of a new round of 
United Nations Security Council sanctions, to pres-
sure its North Korean partner, redouble its efforts 
to prevent Chinese companies from transferring mili-
tary and dual-use technologies to North Korea, and 
to crack down on transshipments through China
•HCON 145 EH 
that relate to North Korean military, missile, and 
nuclear programs and proliferation activities; and 
(4) North Korea should abandon and dismantle 
its provocative missile and nuclear weapons pro-
grams, cease its proliferation activities, and come 
into immediate compliance with all relevant inter-
national agreements and United Nations Security 
Council resolutions. 
Passed the House of Representatives January 1, 
2013. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
112TH CONGRESS 
2ND SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 145 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Calling for universal condemnation of the North 
Korean missile launch of December 12, 2012.