[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 145 Engrossed in House (EH)]
112th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 145
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 1695, unanimously adopted on
July 15, 2006, following a series of North Korean missile firings on
July 5, 2006, specifically condemned the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea's (North Korea) recent test-firing of a series of missiles, and
demanded that the
North-East Asian country suspend all ballistic missile related activity
and reinstate its moratorium on missile launches;
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 relation to North
Korea's missile or WMD programmes;
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-existing 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-related, and
the immediate freezing of funds, other financial assets, and economic
resources that support these illicit 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 territory of any financial or
other assets or resources that could contribute to North Korea's
nuclear-related, ballistic missile-related, or other WMD-related
programmes or activities, and by denying fuel or supplies to service the
vessels carrying them;
Whereas, on December 12, 2012, in flagrant defiance of past United Nations
Security Council resolutions, the international community, and its Six-
Party partners, North Korea launched a three-stage, long-range missile,
which overflew Japanese territory near Okinawa and dropped debris into
the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and waters adjacent to the
Philippines;
Whereas North Korea's latest provocative and defiant action represents a direct
threat to the United States Armed Forces in the Asia/Pacific region and
regional allies and friends, including Australia, Japan, the
Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan and is a
potential future threat to the United States and its people, including
those residing in Guam, Hawaii, Alaska, and the west coast of the United
States mainland; and
Whereas there has been extensive cooperation on missile development and military
cooperation between the Governments of North Korea and Iran that dates
back to the 1980s: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring),
That it is the sense of the Congress that--
(1) the North Korean missile launch of December 12, 2012,
represents a flagrant violation of United Nations 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;
(2) all current restrictions against the Government of
North Korea, including sanctions that ban the importation into
the United States of North Korean products and goods, should
remain in effect until the Government of North Korea no longer
engages in activities that threaten United States interests and
global peace and stability;
(3) the Government of China should cooperate with the
United States in pursuit of a new round of United Nations
Security Council sanctions, to pressure its North Korean
partner, redouble its efforts to prevent Chinese companies from
transferring military and dual-use technologies to North Korea,
and to crack down on transshipments through China that relate
to North Korean military, missile, and nuclear programs and
proliferation activities; and
(4) North Korea should abandon and dismantle its
provocative missile and nuclear weapons programs, cease its
proliferation activities, and come into immediate compliance
with all relevant international agreements and United Nations
Security Council resolutions.
Passed the House of Representatives January 1, 2013.
Attest:
Clerk.
112th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. CON. RES. 145
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CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Calling for universal condemnation of the North Korean missile launch
of December 12, 2012.