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State, shall submit to the specified congressional 
committees a detailed report on the assessment con-
ducted pursuant to paragraph (1). 
(3) CONTENTS.—The report required under 
paragraph (2) shall include the following: 
(A) A listing of the extent to which each 
NATO member country is dependent on a sin-
gle oil or natural gas supplier or distribution 
network. Such listing shall be expressed in 
terms of a percentage basis. 
(B) A description of potential adverse ef-
fects of oil or natural gas price shortages or 
price spikes on those NATO member countries 
that are most dependent on a single oil or nat-
ural gas supplier or distribution network and on 
United States Armed Forces based in Europe, 
including effects on the military and defensive 
capabilities of such countries. 
(C) A description of potential risks posed 
to NATO member countries, including NATO 
member countries in Eastern Europe, and to 
United States Armed Forces based in Europe, 
by the relative lack of easy access to the spot 
market for natural gas. 
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(D) A description of the extent to which 
the United States military, in conjunction with 
the militaries of NATO member countries, 
could respond to and mitigate the energy secu-
rity risk to NATO member countries and to 
United States Armed Forces based on Europe 
posed by the threat of a deliberate disruption of 
the supply of oil or natural gas, and the relative 
challenges and cost of such a response, includ-
ing for transporting oil and natural gas over 
land after delivery by sea to the port of a 
NATO member country. 
(E) A set of recommendations for available 
options to NATO member countries that are 
most dependent on a single oil or natural gas 
supplier or distribution network to avoid such 
dependency, and the potential benefits of in-
creased pipelines within Europe to give Eastern 
European countries access to the spot market 
for natural gas in the event of a supply inter-
ruption. 
(F) A description of all supply interrup-
tions of natural gas to NATO member countries 
over the past 20 years. 
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(G) An analysis of the threats posed by 
supply interruptions, whether accidental, unau-
thorized or deliberate, to energy distribution in-
frastructure and transit areas and lines to 
NATO member countries most dependent on a 
single oil or natural gas supplier or distribution 
network and to United States Armed Forces 
based in Europe, including from events such as 
potential natural disasters or terrorist attacks, 
and the adequacy of the Department of De-
fense’s current contingency plans to respond to 
such interruptions. 
(H) A description of how NATO’s military 
capability might be adversely affected if a major 
oil or natural gas supplier or distribution net-
work were to deliberately disrupt the supply of 
oil or natural gas. 
(I) An analysis of whether and how major 
suppliers of oil and natural gas to NATO mem-
ber countries in Europe have used their energy 
markets to influence European political affairs, 
and the potential of such actions to undermine 
the long-term solidarity and future of the 
NATO alliance. 
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(c) FORM.—The report required under subsection (b) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form (including as much 
detail as possible), but may contain a classified annex. 
(d) CONSULTATION.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
consult with other NATO member countries and NATO’s 
Emerging Security Challenges Division on other ways the 
United States as a NATO member country can contribute 
to the energy security of the NATO alliance and NATO 
regional partners, including through protection of critical 
energy infrastructure and transit areas and lines, coopera-
tion with NATO partners, and consultation among NATO 
allies on the basis of strategic assessments and contin-
gency planning. 
(e) DEFINITION.—In this section the term ‘‘specified 
congressional committees’’ means— 
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; and 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
SEC. 1223. EXTENSION OF REPORT ON PROGRESS TOWARD 
SECURITY AND STABILITY IN AFGHANISTAN. 
Section 1230(a) of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110–181; 122 
Stat. 385), as most recently amended by section 1231 of 
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the Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2011 (Public Law 111–383; 124 Stat. 4395), 
is further amended by striking ‘‘2012’’ and inserting 
‘‘2014’’. 
SEC. 1224. REPORT ON MILITARY AND SECURITY DEVELOP-
MENTS INVOLVING THE DEMOCRATIC PEO-
PLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than March 1, 2012, and 
March 1, 2013, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
the specified congressional committees a report, in both 
classified and unclassified form, on the current and future 
military power of the Democratic People’s Republic of 
Korea (in this section referred to as ‘‘North Korea’’). The 
report shall address the current and probable future 
course of military-technological development of the North 
Korean military, the tenets and probable development of 
North Korean security strategy and military strategy, and 
military organizations and operational concepts, through 
the next 20 years. 
(b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—A report required 
under subsection (a) shall include at least the following 
elements: 
(1) An assessment of the security situation on 
the Korean peninsula. 
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