Title: North Korea Nuclear Baseline Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
North Korea Nuclear Baseline Act
This bill directs the President to submit to Congress a report, with biannual updates, on the status of North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs in order to establish a baseline of progress for denuclearization negotiations. Every 365 days such reports shall include an assessment of U.S. and international capacity to access and investigate in North Korea suspicious sites or allegations of covert nuclear activities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6012 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6012

To require reports on North Korea's nuclear capabilities, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 6, 2018

Mr. Engel (for himself, Mr. McCaul, Mr. Sherman, Mr. Yoho, Mr. Ted Lieu 
 of California, and Mr. Russell) introduced the following bill; which 
 was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to 
the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (Permanent Select), 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

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                                 A BILL


 
To require reports on North Korea's nuclear capabilities, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``North Korea Nuclear Baseline Act''.

SEC. 2. REPORTS RELATING TO DPRK NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES.

    (a) Baseline Report.--Not later than 60 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the President, acting through the Director of 
National Intelligence, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of 
State, shall transmit to the Committee on Armed Services, Committee on 
Foreign Affairs, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on 
Intelligence of the Senate a report on the status of the DPRK's nuclear 
program in order to establish a baseline of progress for negotiations 
with the DPRK regarding denuclearization. Such report shall include, to 
the extent known or suspected, the following:
            (1) The location, quantity, and operational status of the 
        DPRK's nuclear weapons.
            (2) The location of the DPRK's nuclear research, 
        development, and production facilities, including covert 
        facilities.
            (3) The location, quantity, and operational status of the 
        DPRK's ballistic missiles.
            (4) The location of the DPRK's ballistic missile 
        manufacturing and assembly facilities.
            (5) An assessment of any intelligence gaps regarding the 
        information required by this subsection.
    (b) Update.--The report required under subsection (a) shall be 
updated and re-transmitted every 180 days. Such updated and re-
transmitted reports shall include the following information:
            (1) The quantity of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles 
        verifiably dismantled, destroyed, rendered unusable, or 
        transferred out of the DPRK during each reporting period.
            (2) The location of nuclear research, development, and 
        production facilities identified and verifiably dismantled, 
        destroyed, or rendered unusable during each reporting period.
            (3) The location of ballistic missile manufacturing and 
        assembly facilities verifiably dismantled, destroyed, or 
        rendered unusable during each reporting period.
            (4) The quantity of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles 
        remaining within the DPRK or under the control of the DPRK.
            (5) The quantity and locations of nuclear and ballistic 
        missile research, development, and production facilities 
        remaining within the DPRK or under the control of the DPRK.
            (6) An assessment on the progress made in extending the 
        breakout period required for the DPRK to reconstitute its 
        nuclear weapons program and build a nuclear weapon relating to 
        the information required under this subsection.
    (c) Verification Assessment Report.--The updated and re-transmitted 
reports required under subsection (b) shall include, every 365 days, 
information, as appropriate, relating to the progress made during the 
previous 365 day period on the following matters:
            (1) The establishment of safeguards and other control 
        mechanisms and other assurances secured from the DPRK to ensure 
        the DPRK's activities permitted under any agreement will not be 
        used to further any nuclear-related military or nuclear 
        explosive purpose, including for any research on or development 
        of any nuclear explosive device or any other nuclear-related 
        military purpose.
            (2) The capacity of the United States or an international 
        organization, including the International Atomic Energy Agency, 
        to effectively access and investigate in the DPRK suspicious 
        sites or allegations of covert nuclear related activities, 
        including storage sites of nuclear weapons.
    (d) Form.--Each report required under this section shall be 
submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex.
    (e) Sunset.--This section shall terminate on the date that is three 
years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
    (f) Definition.--In this section, the term ``DPRK'' means the 
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (commonly referred to as ``North 
Korea'').
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