IV 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 92 
Condemning North Korea’s development of multiple intercontinental ballistic 
missiles, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 6, 2017 
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. ROGERS of Alabama, Mr. 
MOULTON, Mr. YOHO, and Mr. SHERMAN) submitted the following reso-
lution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in 
addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning North Korea’s development of multiple 
intercontinental ballistic missiles, and for other purposes. 
Whereas the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 
(DPRK), also known as North Korea, possesses a bal-
listic missile and nuclear weapons development program 
that poses grave threats to the United States, South 
Korea, United States allies, and global security; 
Whereas North Korea’s ballistic missile program has dem-
onstrated an increasing ability to reach the United 
States, and constitutes a credible threat to the security 
of the American people; 
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Whereas North Korea has demonstrated a willingness and 
ability to proliferate its ballistic missile and nuclear 
weapons technology to a variety of countries, including 
the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Syrian Arab Repub-
lic, which the United States designated as state sponsors 
of terrorism; 
Whereas, on January 6, 2016, North Korea detonated a nu-
clear device, marking its fourth nuclear test to date; 
Whereas, on February 7, 2016, North Korea, utilizing a 
modified version of the Taepodong-2 ballistic missile, 
launched a satellite into space; 
Whereas, on April 14, 2016, Admiral William Gortney, Com-
mander of U.S. Northern Command, in a hearing before 
the Armed Services Committee of the House of Rep-
resentatives, stated ‘‘they [North Korea] have the ability 
on the KN–O8 to I assess that he has the ability to min-
iaturize a nuclear weapon and range the homeland with 
that warhead’’; 
Whereas, on April 28, 2016, Deputy Secretary of State 
Antony Blinken, in a hearing before the Foreign Affairs 
Committee of the House of Representatives, testified ‘‘the 
benefits of [the trilateral] relationship are crystal clear in 
the face of the region’s most acute challenge—the chal-
lenge from North Korea and its provocative acts in the 
nuclear missile domain’’; 
Whereas, on August 24, 2016, North Korea successfully test-
ed a submarine-launched ballistic missile, firing the mis-
sile over 300 miles from a submerged submarine; 
Whereas, on September 9, 2016, North Korea conducted its 
fifth nuclear test, which it said was a warhead that could 
be standardized for its ballistic missiles; 
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Whereas, on September 15, 2016, Admiral Harry Harris, 
Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, stated ‘‘Com-
bining nuclear warheads with ballistic missile technology 
in the hands of a volatile leader like Kim Jong-un, is a 
recipe for disaster.’’; 
Whereas, on September 16, 2016, Secretary of Defense Ash-
ton Carter stated ‘‘Everyone can see that North Korea 
is determined to try to expand its missile threat to the 
peninsula, to the region, and to the United States.’’; 
Whereas in 2016 North Korea willfully violated multiple 
United Nations Security Council Resolutions over 20 
times, through its nuclear tests, missile tests, and sat-
ellite launch; 
Whereas, on January 6, 2017, Deputy Secretary of State 
Antony Blinken stated that North Korea had conducted 
24 missile tests in the past year, as well as two nuclear 
tests and ‘‘in our assessment, we have a qualitative im-
provement in their capabilities in the past year as a re-
sult of this unprecedented level of activity’’; 
Whereas, on January 8, 2017, North Korea declared that it 
is ready to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile 
(ICBM); and 
Whereas the threat of a nuclear North Korea with a func-
tional and operational intercontinental ballistic missile 
program with nuclear warheads poses a direct threat to 
the United States: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns North Korea’s development of 
multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs); 
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(2) urges the prompt deployment of the Ter-
minal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system 
in South Korea to counter North Korea’s nuclear 
missile threat, which supports an alliance security 
decision; 
(3) reaffirms the United States support of a 
layered, interoperable, multi-tier missile defense sys-
tem to protect Americans and allies on the Korean 
Peninsula; 
(4) supports continued bilateral security co-
operation between the United States and South 
Korea and the consideration of additional measures 
to strengthen the alliance, including expanded for-
eign military sales, technology development, and 
joint exercises, and other actions as appropriate; 
(5) reaffirms, in view of the ICBM threat by 
North Korea, the commitment of the United States 
to its alliances and trilateral missile defense coopera-
tion agreements with South Korea and Japan, which 
are critical for the preservation of peace and sta-
bility in Northeast Asia and throughout the world; 
(6) supports the intelligence sharing agreement 
between Japan and South Korea signed on Novem-
ber 23, 2016, concerning the direct exchange of in-
telligence on North Korea threats; 
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(7) calls upon the People’s Republic of China to 
pressure North Korean leaders to cease their provoc-
ative behavior, abandon and dismantle their nuclear 
and missile programs through the curtailing of vital 
economic support and trade that support the Gov-
ernment of North Korea, and comply with all rel-
evant United Nations Security Council Resolutions; 
and 
(8) calls on the United States to apply all avail-
able economic sanctions on North Korea and cooper-
ate with allies and other countries to impose addi-
tional sanctions on North Korea. 
Æ 
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