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116TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2949 
To provide for oversight of North Korea policy, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 23, 2019 
Mr. ENGEL (for himself and Mr. WILSON of South Carolina) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To provide for oversight of North Korea policy, 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘North Korea Policy 
Oversight Act of 2019’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
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(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the 
Committee on Armed Services, and the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations, 
the Committee on Armed Services, and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. 
(2) 
DENUCLEARIZATION.—The 
term 
‘‘denuclearization’’ refers to the complete, verified, 
and irreversible dismantlement of North Korea’s nu-
clear weapons programs and programs related to the 
delivery mechanisms for nuclear weapons, including 
ballistic missile programs. 
(3) GOVERNMENT
OF
NORTH
KOREA.—The 
term ‘‘Government of North Korea’’ means the Gov-
ernment of North Korea and its agencies, instru-
mentalities, and controlled entities. 
(4) NORTH KOREA.—The term ‘‘North Korea’’ 
means the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. 
(5) NUCLEAR
NONPROLIFERATION
TREATY.— 
The term ‘‘Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty’’ means 
the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear 
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Weapons, done at Washington, London, and Moscow 
July 1, 1968 (21 UST 483). 
(6) SOUTH KOREA.—The term ‘‘South Korea’’ 
means the Republic of Korea. 
(7) VIENNA CONVENTION ON DIPLOMATIC RE-
LATIONS.—The term ‘‘Vienna Convention on Diplo-
matic Relations’’ means the Vienna Convention on 
Diplomatic Relations, done at Vienna April 18, 
1961. 
SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The North Korean nuclear weapons pro-
gram is the culmination of the Government of North 
Korea’s illegal efforts over six decades to acquire a 
nuclear weapons program capable of threatening 
both the United States and United States critical al-
lies in the Indo-Pacific region. 
(2) North Korea maintains a robust ballistic 
missile arsenal that includes a diverse array of deliv-
ery systems capable of striking targets throughout 
the Indo-Pacific region, including short- and me-
dium-range missiles that hold regional countries, in-
cluding some United States allies, at risk, and inter-
continental ballistic missiles that are potentially ca-
pable of targeting the United States mainland. 
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(3) North Korea has flagrantly defied the inter-
national community by continuing to illicitly develop 
its nuclear and ballistic missile programs in violation 
of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 
1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), 2094 
(2013), 2270 (2016), 2321 (2016), 2356 (2017), 
2371 (2017), 2375 (2017), and 2397 (2017). 
(4) United States law, including the North 
Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 
2016 (Public Law 114–122; 22 U.S.C. 9201 et seq.) 
authorizes sanctions in response to North Korea’s 
pursuit of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, 
and ballistic missiles, and its human rights abuses. 
United States law also specifies the conditions under 
which sanctions may be removed or waived, includ-
ing that North Korea takes meaningful and 
verifiable actions toward denuclearization and ad-
dresses human rights concerns. 
(5) International economic and diplomatic sanc-
tions applied since the passage of the North Korea 
Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016, in-
cluding by the United States and the United Na-
tions, when enforced, have intensified pressure on 
North Korea and degraded North Korea’s ability to 
advance it’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. 
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(6) The United States has applied sanctions 
against North Korean individuals and entities, in-
cluding on Kim Jong Un, for their complicity in 
human rights abuses against the North Korean peo-
ple and citizens of other countries, including the 
United States, South Korea, and Japan. 
(7) For decades, the Government of North 
Korea has failed to live up to its diplomatic commit-
ments, rejecting good faith efforts by United States 
and international negotiators, and leveraging talks 
to extract concessions such as sanctions relief. 
(8) On January 1, 2018, in a New Year’s Day 
address, Kim Jong Un signaled an interest in under-
taking diplomatic engagement, which led to direct 
bilateral talks between Kim Jong Un and the leaders 
of the South Korea, China, and the United States. 
(9) On April 22, 2018, Kim Jong Un asserted 
that North Korea had completed its quest for nu-
clear weapons, stating that ‘‘under the proven condi-
tion of complete nuclear weapons, we no longer need 
any nuclear tests, mid-range and intercontinental 
ballistic rocket tests, and that the nuclear test site 
in northern area has also completed its mission’’. 
(10) The Panmunjom Declaration released fol-
lowing the Inter-Korean summit meeting on April 
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27, 2018, and the joint declaration by President 
Trump and Kim Jong Un at the June 12, 2018, 
summit between the United States and North Korea 
in Singapore reaffirmed that North Korea ‘‘commits 
to working toward the complete denuclearization of 
the Korean Peninsula’’. 
(11) On June 13, 2018, Secretary of State 
Pompeo said, ‘‘President Trump has been incredibly 
clear about the sequencing of denuclearization and 
relief from the sanctions. We are going to get com-
plete denuclearization; only then will there be relief 
from the sanctions.’’. 
(12) The Secretary of State confirmed on July 
25, 2018, in testimony before the Senate Foreign 
Relations Committee, that North Korea does ‘‘con-
tinue to produce fissile material’’ and, according to 
open source analysis, North Korea has enough fissile 
material for at least 30 to 60 nuclear weapons. 
(13) The North Korea Sanctions and Policy 
Enhancement Act of 2016 provides that certain 
sanctions terminate when North Korea has ‘‘made 
significant progress toward— 
(A) ‘‘completely, verifiably, and irreversibly 
dismantling all of its nuclear, chemical, biologi-
cal, and radiological weapons programs, includ-
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