This bill prohibits the President from waiving, reducing, or otherwise limiting the application of sanctions on North Korea until the President certifies to Congress that North Korea has: ceased engaging in gross human rights abuses, including operation of slave-labor and political prisoner camps; established a disclosure and transparency process to identify crimes committed by the North Korean regime against its people; and issued a formal apology to the family of Otto Warmbier for his unlawful detention, torture, and murder.
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Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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To prohibit lifting of United States sanctions imposed with respect to North Korea.
USA115th CongressHR-6094| House
| Updated: 6/13/2018
This bill prohibits the President from waiving, reducing, or otherwise limiting the application of sanctions on North Korea until the President certifies to Congress that North Korea has: ceased engaging in gross human rights abuses, including operation of slave-labor and political prisoner camps; established a disclosure and transparency process to identify crimes committed by the North Korean regime against its people; and issued a formal apology to the family of Otto Warmbier for his unlawful detention, torture, and murder.
Arms control and nonproliferationAsiaCongressional oversightDetention of personsDiplomacy, foreign officials, Americans abroadHuman rightsNorth KoreaNuclear weaponsPresidents and presidential powers, Vice PresidentsRule of law and government transparencySanctionsSovereignty, recognition, national governance and status