IV 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 116 
Condemning North Korea’s February 6, 2016, long-range rocket launch and 
North Korea’s February 9, 2016, restart of a plutonium reactor. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 12, 2016 
Mr. ASHFORD submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Condemning North Korea’s February 6, 2016, long-range 
rocket launch and North Korea’s February 9, 2016, re-
start of a plutonium reactor. 
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1695 
also required all Member States, in accordance with their 
national legal authorities and legislation and consistent 
with international law, to exercise vigilance and prevent 
missile and missile-related items, materials, goods, and 
technology being transferred to North Korea’s missile or 
weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes, and to 
prevent the procurement of missiles or missile related- 
items, materials, goods, and technology from North 
Korea, and the transfer of any financial resources in rela-
tion to North Korea’s missile or WMD programmes; 
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Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, 
adopted on October 14, 2006, decided that North Korea 
shall suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile 
programme and in this context re-establish its pre-exist-
ing commitments to a moratorium on missile launching; 
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718 
also imposed a ban on the sales of military equipment 
and luxury goods to North Korea as well as a ban on 
technology transfers; 
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718 
further required Member States to prevent the travel of 
North Korean officials connected to the ballistic missile 
or nuclear programs, the inspection of cargo from North 
Korea to assure it was not missile, WMD, or nuclear-re-
lated, and the immediate freezing of funds, other finan-
cial assets, and economic resources that support these il-
licit North Korean activities; 
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 October 9, 2006, North Korea conducted an un-
derground nuclear test in violation of previous United 
Nations Security Council resolutions; 
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Whereas, on May 25, 2009, North Korea conducted an un-
derground nuclear test in violation of previous United 
Nations Security Council resolutions; 
Whereas, on December 12, 2012, North Korea launched a 
three-stage, long-range missile in violation of previous 
United Nations Security Council resolutions; 
Whereas, on February 12, 2013, North Korea conducted an 
underground nuclear test in violation of previous United 
Nations Security Council resolutions; 
Whereas, on January 6, 2015, North Korea claimed to have 
detonated a hydrogen bomb in clear violation of previous 
United Nations Security Council resolutions; 
Whereas North Korea stated the purpose of testing this bomb 
was a claim of self-defense against the United States; 
Whereas scientific consensus doubts the validity of this claim 
because monitoring stations showed it not consistent with 
a test of hydrogen bomb; 
Whereas what is known is that North Korea has detonated 
a large-scale weapons systems in violation of the United 
Nations sanctions; 
Whereas North Korea’s most recent detonation of a large- 
scale weapon represents a clear violation of United Na-
tions 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; 
Whereas North Korea tested a nuclear bomb on January 6, 
2016; 
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Whereas the January 6, 2016, nuclear test was the fourth 
nuclear device North Korea has tested; 
Whereas United States Commanders of the North American 
Aerospace Defense Command determined North Korea 
has the ability to launch rockets that have a range to 
reach the United States, and that North Korea possesses 
the technology to launch a nuclear weapon from a rocket; 
Whereas the North Korea launch of a long-range rocket is a 
test of internationally banned missile technology; 
Whereas, on February 9, 2016, shortly after the February 6, 
2016, rocket launch, North Korea restarted a plutonium 
rector which was shut down in 2007; and 
Whereas the United States Congress has condemned North 
Korea’s nuclear test on January 6, 2016: Now, therefore, 
be it 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That Congress condemns North Korea’s Feb-
ruary 6, 2016, long-range rocket launch and North Ko-
rea’s February 9, 2016, restart of a plutonium reactor. 
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