ance Act of 1961, or other provision of law, is a govern-
ment that has repeatedly provided support for acts of 
international terrorism, shall remain in effect, and shall 
not be lifted pursuant to such provisions of law, unless 
the President certifies to Congress that the Government 
of North Korea— 
(1) is no longer engaged in the illegal transfer 
of missile or nuclear technology, particularly to the 
governments of Iran, Syria, or any other country, 
the government of which the Secretary of State has 
determined for purposes of section 6(j) of the Ex-
port Administration Act of 1979 (as continued in ef-
fect pursuant to the International Emergency Eco-
nomic Powers Act), section 40 of the Arms Export 
Control Act, section 620A of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, or other provision of law, is a govern-
ment that has repeatedly provided support for inter-
national acts of terrorism; 
(2) is no longer engaged in training in combat 
operations or tunneling, or harboring, supplying, fi-
nancing, or supporting in any way— 
(A) Hamas, Hezbollah, the Japanese Red 
Army, or any member of such organizations; 
(B) any organization designated by the 
Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organi-
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zation in accordance with section 219(a) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1189(a)); and 
(C) any person included on the annex to 
Executive Order 13224 (September 21, 2001) 
and any other person identified under section 1 
of that Executive Order whose property and in-
terests are blocked by that section (commonly 
known as a ‘‘specially designated global ter-
rorist’’); 
(3) is no longer engaged in the counterfeiting of 
United States currency ‘‘supernotes’’; 
(4) is no longer engaged in the international 
trafficking of illicit narcotics into the United States, 
Japan, Australia, or other allied countries of the 
United States; 
(5) has released United States citizens Euna 
Lee and Laura Ling, who were working as journal-
ists reporting on refugees on the North Korean bor-
der of China when they were detained by North Ko-
rean guards on March 17, 2009, and has returned 
the last remains of United States permanent resi-
dent, Reverend Kim Dong-shik, to his United States 
citizen widow, family, and church members, so that 
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he may be provided with a proper Christian burial 
in Chicago; 
(6) has released the Japanese nationals recog-
nized as abduction victims by the Government of 
Japan as well as abduction victims recognized by the 
Government of the Republic of Korea; 
(7) has released an estimated 600 surviving 
South Korean POWs, and any other surviving 
POWs from the Korean War, who have been held in 
North Korea against their will and in violation of 
the Armistice Agreement since hostilities ended in 
July, 1953; 
(8) has made concrete provisions for unre-
stricted family reunification meetings for those indi-
viduals among the two-million strong Korean-Amer-
ican community who maintain family ties with rel-
atives inside North Korea; 
(9) has opened the North Korean penal system, 
including the gulag of concentration camps holding 
an estimated 200,000 political and religious pris-
oners, to unrestricted and regular visits by rep-
resentatives of the International Committee of the 
Red Cross (ICRC); 
(10) has made provision for unrestricted and 
regular access by representatives of the United Na-
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tional High Commissioner for Refugees to refugees 
forcibly repatriated to North Korea to determine 
their general health and welfare; and 
(11) has made concrete provisions for unre-
stricted contact, including direct communications 
and meetings, between representatives of inter-
national and South Korean religious organizations, 
including Christians and Buddhists, and their co-be-
lievers inside North Korea. 
SEC. 4. CONTINUATION OF DIPLOMATIC NONRECOGNITION 
OF NORTH KOREA. 
(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that the United States 
did not grant diplomatic recognition to North Korea upon 
its establishment as a client regime of the former Soviet 
Union in 1948. The United States has consistently contin-
ued to withhold such formal diplomatic recognition during 
the 59 years since the sudden and unprovoked attack by 
North Korean forces on the Republic of Korea on June 
25, 1950, an attack which led directly to the Korean War 
and the deaths of over 36,000 United States military per-
sonnel as well as at least 2,000,000 Koreans and over 
3,000 soldiers from Allied countries. 
(b) CONTINUATION OF DIPLOMATIC NONRECOGNI-
TION.—The diplomatic nonrecognition described in sub-
section (a), including restrictions on the establishment of 
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a permanent presence or United States liaison office inside 
North Korea, shall remain in effect, until such time as 
the President certifies to Congress that the Government 
of North Korea has met all of the benchmarks specified 
in section 3. 
SEC. 5. INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO A NORTH KOREAN 
MISSILE LAUNCH. 
In the case of the launch of a missile, rocket, or other 
airborne object by North Korea in clear violation of United 
Nations Security Council resolutions 1695 and 1718, the 
President shall instruct the United States Permanent 
Representative to the United Nations to use the voice, 
vote, and influence of the United States to secure adoption 
of a United Nations Security Counsel resolution con-
demning North Korea’s action as a violation of United Na-
tions Security Council resolutions 1695 and 1718 and re-
quiring the implementation of comprehensive sanctions 
against North Korea. 
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