I 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 204 
To continue restrictions against and prohibit diplomatic recognition of the 
Government of North Korea, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 8, 2015 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. CONNOLLY, Mr. SALMON, Mr. CHABOT, 
and Mr. POE of Texas) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee 
on Ways and Means, 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 concerned 
A BILL 
To continue restrictions against and prohibit diplomatic rec-
ognition of the Government of North Korea, 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 Sanctions 
and Diplomatic Nonrecognition Act of 2015’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) On January 2, 2015, the President issued 
Executive Order 13687 imposing additional sanc-
tions with respect to North Korea which stated that 
‘‘the provocative, destabilizing, and repressive ac-
tions and policies of the Government of North 
Korea, including its destructive, coercive cyber-re-
lated actions during November and December 2014, 
actions in violation of United Nations Security 
Council Resolutions 1718, 1874, 2087, and 2094, 
and commission of serious human rights abuses, 
constitute a continuing threat to the national secu-
rity, foreign policy, and economy of the United 
States’’. 
(2) On January 2, 2015, the Department of the 
Treasury stated that Executive Order 13687 was ‘‘in 
response to the Government of the Democratic Peo-
ple’s Republic of Korea’s numerous provocations, 
particularly the recent cyber-attack targeting Sony 
Pictures Entertainment and the threats against 
movie theaters and moviegoers’’. 
(3) On January 2, 2015, White House Press 
Secretary Josh Earnest stated that ‘‘[Executive 
Order 13687] is a response to the Government of 
North Korea’s ongoing provocative, destabilizing, 
and repressive actions and policies, particularly its 
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destructive and coercive cyber attack on Sony Pic-
tures Entertainment.’’. 
(4) On December 29, 2014, the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation stated that it ‘‘has concluded the 
Government of North Korea is responsible for the 
theft and destruction of data on the network of Sony 
Pictures Entertainment’’. 
(5) On December 19, 2014, the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation stated that it ‘‘has enough informa-
tion to conclude that the North Korean government 
is responsible’’ for the cyber attack targeting Sony 
Pictures Entertainment on November 22, 2014. 
(6) On July 30, 2014, the Department of the 
Treasury imposed sanctions on two North Korean 
shipping companies, and 18 of their vessels, that 
‘‘attempted to import a concealed shipment of arms 
and related materiel from Cuba to the DPRK 
aboard the DPRK-flagged vessel Chong Chon Gang 
in July 2013’’. 
(7) On July 28, 2014, the United Nations Se-
curity Council’s DPRK Sanctions Committee sanc-
tioned the North Korea shipping company, Ocean 
Maritime Management Company, for its ‘‘key role in 
arranging the shipment of concealed arms and re-
lated materiel from Cuba to the DPRK in July 
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2013’’ and stated that the company ‘‘contributed to 
activities prohibited by the resolutions, namely the 
arms embargo imposed by resolution 1718 (2006), 
as modified by resolution 1874 (2009), and contrib-
uted to the evasion of the measures imposed by 
these resolutions’’. 
(8) On July 28, 2014, the United States Per-
manent Representative to the United Nations, 
Samantha Power, stated that the attempted arms 
shipment was a ‘‘cynical, outrageous and illegal at-
tempt by Cuba and North Korea to circumvent 
United Nations Sanctions prohibiting the export of 
weapons to North Korea’’ and that the United Na-
tions Security Council’s DPRK Sanctions Committee 
had ‘‘uncovered irrefutable facts that clearly prove 
Cuba and the DPRK’s intentions to violate sanc-
tions by employing highly sophisticated deception 
and obfuscation techniques, including Cuba’s false 
claims about the transaction being a routine repair 
effort when detected by Panamanian and UN au-
thorities’’. 
(9) North Korean negotiators in the Six-Party 
diplomatic process did not act in good faith by their 
refusal to agree to a transparent verification process 
for denuclearization consistent with ‘‘international 
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standards’’, including provisions for nuclear sam-
pling, following North Korea’s removal on October 
11, 2008, from the list of state sponsors of terrorism 
maintained by the Department of State. 
(10) International press reports indicate that 
North Korea has continued to provide support to 
Iran in the areas of missile technology and nuclear 
development and has provided Iran’s surrogates, 
Hezbollah and Hamas, with both missile technology 
and training in tunneling techniques with which to 
attack Israel, an ally of the United States. 
(11) International press reports indicate that 
North Korea was engaged for a number of years in 
assistance to Syria in the construction of a nuclear 
reactor in the Syrian desert which was destroyed in 
a strike by Israeli forces on September 6, 2007. 
(12) North Korean negotiators continue to 
refuse to address in a humane and sincere manner 
the issue of the abduction of civilians of Japan and 
the Republic of Korea, both allies of the United 
States, as well as the abductions of citizens from a 
number of other countries, including France, Leb-
anon, Romania, and Thailand. 
(13) Defectors coming out of North Korea have 
provided testimony that United States permanent 
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resident, Reverend Kim Dong-shik, the spouse and 
father of United States citizens, was tortured and 
murdered inside North Korea after his abduction by 
Pyongyang’s agents on the Chinese border in Janu-
ary 2000 and that his remains are currently being 
held at a military facility inside North Korea. 
(14) Congress authoritatively expressed its 
view, in section 202(b)(2) of the North Korean 
Human Rights Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–333; 
22 U.S.C. 7832(b)(2)) that ‘‘United States non-
humanitarian assistance to North Korea shall be 
contingent on North Korea’s substantial progress’’ 
on human rights improvements, release of and ac-
counting for abductees, family reunification, reform 
of North Korea’s labor camp system, and the de-
criminalization of political expression, none of which 
has occurred. 
(15) Congress further authoritatively expressed 
its view, in section 2 of the North Korean Human 
Rights Reauthorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 
110–346) that ‘‘human rights and humanitarian 
conditions inside North Korea are deplorable’’ and 
that ‘‘North Korean refugees remain acutely vulner-
able’’. 
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(16) Congress has determined that any missile 
test or launch conducted by North Korea would be 
in direct violation of United Nations Security Coun-
cil resolution 1695, adopted on July 16, 2006, which 
‘‘condemns the multiple launches by the DPRK 
(North Korea) of ballistic missiles on July 5 2006 
local time’’, and United Nations Security Council 
Resolution 1718, adopted on October 9, 2006, which 
‘‘demands that the DPRK (North Korea) not con-
duct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic 
missile’’ and ‘‘decides that the DPRK shall suspend 
all activities related to its ballistic missile pro-
gramme and in this context re-establish its pre-exist-
ing commitments to a moratorium on missile launch-
ing’’, and further determines that the resulting sanc-
tions imposed under such resolution 1718 would 
again come into full effect following a missile test or 
launch. 
(17) Congress has further determined that a re-
turn by North Korea to the Six-Party diplomatic 
process following any missile test or launch by 
Pyongyang must include a firm and transparent 
commitment to the complete, verifiable and irrevers-
ible dismantlement of all of North Korea’s nuclear 
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programs, including those derived both from pluto-
nium as well as highly enriched uranium. 
(18) Japanese press reports have indicated that 
a delegation of approximately fifteen Iranian missile 
experts arrived in North Korea in March 2009 ‘‘to 
help Pyongyang prepare for a rocket launch’’, in-
cluding senior officials with the Iranian rocket and 
satellite producer Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group, 
and that they brought with them a letter from their 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to North Korean 
leader Kim Jong-Il stressing the importance of co-
operating on space technology. 
(19) North Korea, in defiance of the inter-
national community’s efforts to end nuclear pro-
liferation and in violation of its international obliga-
tions, conducted a second underground nuclear test 
on May 25, 2009 (local time), in violation of United 
Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, which re-
sulted in the passage of United Nations Security 
Council Resolution 1874 on June 12, 2009, which 
imposed additional sanctions and inspection require-
ments with regard to North Korea. 
(20) North Korea, according to Western press 
reports, transshipped missile parts, used to run 
Iran’s solid fuel ballistic missile program, to Tehran 
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via Air Iran flights which landed in Beijing, China 
in 2007. 
(21) Press reports in March 2011 indicated 
that opposition forces in Libya, when they took posi-
tions from Qaddafi forces, discovered North Korean 
weapons caches, including rockets and anti-aircraft 
guns, unpacked from crates labeled ‘‘bulldozer 
parts,’’ which would represent a clear violation of 
United Nations sanctions. 
(22) On August 16, 2012, the President signed 
into law the Ambassador James R. Lilley and Con-
gressman Stephen J. Solarz North Korea Human 
Rights Reauthorization Act of 2012 (Public Law 
112–172). 
(23) Congress further authoritatively expressed 
its view in section 2 of Public Law 112–172 that 
‘‘although the transition to the leadership of Kim 
Jong-Un after the death of Kim Jong-Il has intro-
duced new uncertainties and possibilities, the funda-
mental human rights and humanitarian conditions 
inside North Korea remain deplorable, North Ko-
rean refugees remain acutely vulnerable, and the 
findings in the 2004 Act and 2008 Reauthorization 
remain substantially accurate today’’. 
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