To express the sense of the Senate with respect to North Korea.

1. Adds SEC. ____. SENSE OF THE SENATE WITH RESPECT TO NORTH KOREA wherever appropriate

   Adds a section

   Inserted: SEC. ____. SENSE OF THE SENATE WITH RESPECT TO NORTH KOREA.

   Inserted: It is the sense of the Senate that--

   Inserted: (1) North Korea has violated the basic terms of the Agreed Framework Between the United States of America and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, signed in Geneva on October 21, 1994 (and the Confidential Minute to that agreement), and the North-South Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula by pursuing the enrichment of uranium for the purpose of building a nuclear weapon and by "nuclearizing" the Korean peninsula;

   Inserted: (2) North Korea has announced its intention to restart the 5-megawatt reactor and related reprocessing facility at Yongbyon, which were frozen under the Agreed Framework, and has expelled the International Atomic Energy Agency personnel monitoring the freeze;

   Inserted: (3) North Korea has announced its intention to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at Washington, London, and Moscow on July 1, 1968 (21 UST 483);

   Inserted: (4) the Agreed Framework is, as a result of North Korea's own actions over several years and recent declaration, null and void;

   Inserted: (5) North Korea's pursuit and development of nuclear weapons is of grave concern and represents a serious threat to the security of the United States, its regional allies, and friends;

   Inserted: (6) North Korea must immediately come into compliance with its obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and other commitments to the international community;

   Inserted: (7) any diplomatic solution to the North Korean crisis must achieve the total dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear weapons and nuclear production capability, including effective and comprehensive verification requirements, on-site monitoring, and free access for the investigation of all sites of concern;

   Inserted: (8) the United States, in conjunction with the Republic of Korea and other allies in the Pacific region, should take measures to ensure the highest possible level of deterrence and military readiness against the multiple threats that North Korea poses;

   Inserted: (9) since 1995, the United States has been the single largest food donor to North Korea, providing $620,000,000 in food aid assistance over that time;

   Inserted: (10) North Korea does not allow full verification of the use of food aid assistance, as shown by the failure of North Korea to permit the World Food Program to introduce a system of random access monitoring of such use in North Korea and the failure of North Korea to provide the World Food Program with a list of institutions through which World Food Program food is provided to beneficiaries;

   Show 5 more inserted paragraphsShow less

   Inserted: (11) the failures described in paragraph (10) fall short of humanitarian practice in emergency operations in other parts of the world; and

   Inserted: (12) North Korea should allow full verification of the use of food aid assistance by--

   Inserted: (A) providing the World Food Program with a list of institutions through which World Food Program food is provided to beneficiaries;

   Inserted: (B) permitting the World Food Program to introduce a system of random access monitoring in North Korea; and

   Inserted: (C) providing access for the World Food Program in all counties in North Korea.

   The amendment doesn't say where this goes; the clerk decides.

   Original wording

   At the appropriate place, insert the following:

Read automatically from the Congressional Record. Check the original before relying on it.

As printed