I 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5208 
To require a report on the designation of the Democratic People’s Republic 
of Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 12, 2016 
Mr. POE of Texas (for himself and Mr. SHERMAN) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To require a report on the designation of the Democratic 
People’s Republic of Korea as a state sponsor of ter-
rorism, 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 State 
Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2016’’. 
SEC. 2. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF NORTH KOREA AS A 
STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Government of North Korea has har-
bored members of the Japanese Red Army since a 
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1970 hijacking and continues to harbor the sur-
viving hijackers to this day. 
(2) North Korea bombed Korean Airlines Flight 
858 in November 1987, killing 115 people, and car-
ried out the Rangoon bombing of 1983, killing 21 
people, including 13 senior South Korean officials 
and two members of the Presidential Guard. 
(3) In 2005, a North Korean agent, Ryu 
Young-Hwa, was convicted in a South Korean court 
and sentenced to 10 years in prison for his involve-
ment in the kidnapping of the Reverend Kim Dong- 
shik, a lawful permanent resident of the United 
States, in 2000. In 2005, then-Senator Barack 
Obama was among 20 members of the Illinois con-
gressional delegation stating that they would not 
support the removal of North Korea from the list of 
state sponsors of terrorism until it provided a full 
accounting of Rev. Kim’s fate. 
(4) Of the three states currently on the list of 
State Sponsors of Terrorism, both Iran and Syria 
are designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism for 
their support of Hamas and Hezbollah. The Depart-
ment of State’s 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012, and 2013 
‘‘Country Reports’’ all cited Iran and Syria for sup-
plying weapons to Hezbollah through Syrian terri-
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tory, and most of them also cited Iran’s training of 
Hezbollah. 
(5) In October 2008, a South Korean court 
convicted Won Jeong-hwa, a North Korean agent, 
for attempting to assassinate a South Korean mili-
tary officer in Hong Kong, and sentenced her to 5 
years in prison. 
(6) In December 2009, a North Korean arms 
shipment aboard an Ilyushin Il–76 cargo plane was 
discovered and seized by authorities of the Govern-
ment of Thailand. The cargo, which was marked as 
consisting of oil-drilling equipment, contained 35 
tons of rockets, surface-to-air missiles (MANPADS), 
explosives, rocket-propelled grenades, and other 
weaponry. A similar shipment was impounded in the 
United Arab Emirates a few months earlier in July 
2009. A third shipment was intercepted by the 
Israeli government in the Eastern Mediterranean in 
November 2009. According to published media re-
ports, United States and Israeli intelligence agencies 
concluded that the shipments were destined for Ira-
nian-backed terrorists, including Hezbollah, Hamas, 
and the Quds Force. Another large quantity of ship-
ments to both Hamas and Hezbollah, is believed to 
have been transferred unnoticed. 
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(7) In June of 2010, Major Kim Myong-ho and 
Major Dong Myong-gwan of North Korea’s Recon-
naissance General Bureau pled guilty in a South Ko-
rean court to attempting to assassinate Hwang 
Jang-yop, a North Korean dissident in exile, on the 
orders of Lieutenant General Kim Yong-chol, the 
head of North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bu-
reau. The court sentenced each defendant to 10 
years in prison. 
(8) On July 16, 2010, in the case of Calderon- 
Cardona v. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 
(case number 08–01367), the United States District 
Court for the District of Puerto Rico found that the 
Government of North Korea provided material sup-
port to the Japanese Red Army, designated as a 
Foreign Terrorist Organization between 1997 and 
2001, in furtherance of a 1972 terrorist attack at 
Lod Airport, Israel that killed 26 people, including 
17 Americans. 
(9) On November 23, 2010, North Korea 
shelled South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island with at 
least 50 artillery shells, killing 4, including two civil-
ians, and injuring 22 others. 
(10) In November 2012, a South Korean court 
sentenced An Hak-young, a North Korean agent, to 
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