(24) Notwithstanding the succession of Kim 
Jong-Un as supreme leader of North Korea fol-
lowing the death of his father in December 2011, 
Pyongyang has continued a policy of horrendous 
human rights violations, including the issuance of 
new ‘‘shoot to kill’’ orders for refugees attempting to 
cross the border into China and an increased reli-
ance on public executions to intimidate the North 
Korean populace. 
(25) The new Kim Jong-Un regime also dis-
played duplicity in its negotiations with the United 
States and other Six-Party partners by launching a 
missile in April 2012 in direct violation of its ‘‘Leap 
Day Agreement’’ to carry out a moratorium on nu-
clear and long-range missile tests. 
(26) Pyongyang defied the international com-
munity and relevant United Nations Security Coun-
cil resolutions by launching a long-range missile on 
December 12, 2012, resulting in the unanimous pas-
sage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 
2087 on January 22, 2013. 
(27) The regime in Pyongyang further defied 
the international community and relevant United 
Nations Security Council resolutions by conducting a 
nuclear test on February 12, 2013. 
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(28) According to the United States Geological 
Survey, seismic activity was detected in North Korea 
with an earthquake measuring 4.9 magnitude, larger 
than the 2006 and 2009 explosions, and the epi-
center of the quake was close to a North Korean nu-
clear test site. 
SEC. 3. CONTINUATION OF RESTRICTIONS AGAINST THE 
GOVERNMENT OF NORTH KOREA. 
(a) FINDING.—Congress finds that subsequent to the 
decision of the Secretary of State on October 11, 2008, 
to rescind the designation of North Korea as a state spon-
sor of terrorism, North Korea has committed acts that can 
be defined as international terrorism or as highly provoca-
tive, including— 
(1) the dispatch of a covert team of two North 
Korean military-trained agents to South Korea with 
orders to assassinate the late North Korean defector 
Hwang Jang-yop who were apprehended by South 
Korean officials in April 2010; 
(2) complicity in the sinking of the South Ko-
rean naval vessel Cheonan on March 26, 2010, 
which resulted in the deaths of 46 South Korean 
naval personnel; 
(3) the shipment of weapons by North Korea, 
seized in Bangkok in December 2009, which were 
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bound for delivery to foreign terrorist organizations 
Hezbollah and Hamas, according to a statement 
made by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman 
in Tokyo on May 12, 2010; 
(4) the sudden and unprovoked bombardment 
by North Korean artillery of the civilian-populated 
South Korean island of Yeonpyeong-do on November 
23, 2010, which resulted in the deaths of two South 
Korean civilians and two Republic of Korea (ROK) 
marines; 
(5) the sentencing by Seoul Central District 
Court in January 2011 of North Korean agent Ri 
Dong Sam to 10 years in prison for impersonating 
a refugee in August 2010 to enter South Korea 
under orders to assassinate leading North Korean 
defector Hwang Jang-yop; and 
(6) North Korea’s ‘‘numerous provocations, 
particularly the recent cyber-attack targeting Sony 
Pictures Entertainment and the threats against 
movie theaters and moviegoers,’’ as described by the 
Department of the Treasury on January 2, 2015. 
(b) CONTINUATION
OF
RESTRICTIONS.—Notwith-
standing the decision by the Secretary of State on October 
11, 2008, to rescind the designation of North Korea as 
a state sponsor of terrorism, and in light of the congres-
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sional finding described in subsection (a), restrictions 
against the Government of North Korea that were im-
posed by reason of a determination of the Secretary of 
State that the Government of North Korea is a state spon-
sor of terrorism, as well as sanctions against the Govern-
ment of North Korea (including sanctions that ban the 
importation into the United States of North Korean prod-
ucts and goods), that are in effect as of the date of the 
enactment of this Act shall remain in effect, and shall not 
be lifted, unless the President makes the certification de-
scribed in subsection (c). 
(c) CERTIFICATION.—The certification referred to in 
subsection (b) is a certification to Congress containing a 
determination of the President 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 state spon-
sor of terrorism, or to Burma; 
(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; 
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(B) any organization designated by the 
Secretary of State as a foreign terrorist organi-
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 returned the last remains of United 
States permanent resident, Reverend Kim Dong- 
shik, to his United States citizen family and church 
members, so that 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 
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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-
tional High Commissioner for Refugees to refugees 
forcibly repatriated to North Korea to determine 
their general health and welfare; 
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(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; 
(12) has offered apologies to the government 
and people of the Republic of Korea for the deaths 
that North Korea inflicted due to the unprovoked at-
tacks on the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan on 
March 26, 2010, and on the island of Yeonpyeong- 
do on November 23, 2010; and 
(13) is no longer engaged in cyber-attacks 
against the United States, its government, infra-
structure, entities, or citizens, or those of its allies. 
(d) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that, in light of the congressional finding described 
in subsection (a), the Secretary of State should redesig-
nate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism imme-
diately upon the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(e) STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM DEFINED.—In 
this section, the term ‘‘state sponsor of terrorism’’ means 
any country the government of which the Secretary of 
State determines has repeatedly provided support for acts 
of international terrorism pursuant to section 6(j) of the 
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Export Administration Act of 1979 (as continued in effect 
pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Pow-
ers Act), section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act, sec-
tion 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, or any 
other provision of law. 
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 61 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.—No funds may be expended for the establishment 
of a United States diplomatic presence in North Korea, 
including an Embassy, Consulate, or liaison office, until 
such time as the President certifies to Congress that the 
Government of North Korea has met all of the bench-
marks specified in section 3. 
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SEC. 5. INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO A NORTH KOREAN 
MISSILE LAUNCH OR NUCLEAR TEST. 
Given North Korea’s third nuclear weapons test on 
February 12, 2013, in violation of United Nations Secu-
rity Council Resolutions 1695, 1718, 1874, and 2087, 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 Council resolution con-
demning North Korea’s action as a violation of United Na-
tions Security Council Resolutions 1695, 1718, 1874, and 
2087 and requiring the implementation of comprehensive 
sanctions and an inspection regime against North Korea. 
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