S.Amdt. 1484

1. Adds SEC. 1205. REPORT ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH KOREA on page 296, line 19

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   Inserted: SEC. 1205. REPORT ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT IN NORTH KOREA.

   Inserted: (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:

   Inserted: (1) Since the 1993 announcement by officials of the Government of North Korea that North Korea intended to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at Washington, London, and Moscow July 1, 1968 (21 UST 483) (hereinafter referred to as the "Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty"), the United States and its allies have carried out a number of diplomatic initiatives to address concerns related to nuclear weapons development in North Korea.

   Inserted: (2) Diplomatic negotiations led to the Agreed Framework between the United States and North Korea, signed in Geneva October 21, 1994 (hereinafter referred to as the "Agreed Framework"), under which more than 8,000 plutonium spent fuel rods suitable for reprocessing into weapons grade material were kept under international monitoring.

   Inserted: (3) During the period that the Agreed Framework has not been in effect since 2002--

   Inserted: (A) officials of the Government of North Korea have indicated North Korea has reprocessed all of the 8,000 plutonium spent fuel rods that were previously under international monitoring so that such rods are in a form suitable for use in multiple nuclear weapons;

   Inserted: (B) North Korea has withdrawn from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; and

   Inserted: (C) officials of the Government of North Korea have indicated that North Korea has restarted its known plutonium-based reactor at Yongbyon which allows North Korea to prepare more nuclear weapons material.

   Inserted: (4) Since 2002, the United States diplomatic strategy with respect to nuclear materials in North Korea has centered on a six party talks process, the last meeting of which occurred in June 2004, and next meeting of which is expected to begin on July 26, 2005.

   Inserted: (5) Complete and open debate by Congress and the people of the United States of the national security interests and an accurate assessment of the diplomatic options available to the United States with respect to North Korea require that the most complete data regarding nuclear materials development in North Korea be made available.

   Inserted: (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--

   Inserted: (1) the United States negotiators in the process of six party talks regarding the development of nuclear materials in North Korea should be fully empowered with the flexibility to negotiate meaningfully to seek agreements and understandings that advance toward the goal of a denuclearized North Korea, as such agreements and understandings are in the national security interest of the United States; and

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   Inserted: (2) such six party talks should occur in an ongoing, regular, and frequent basis.

   Inserted: (c) Report.--

   Inserted: (1) Requirement.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to Congress a report on the development of nuclear materials in North Korea. Such report shall include--

   Inserted: (A) an estimate of the number of nuclear weapons that the President believes that it is likely that North Korea produced--

   Inserted: (i) prior to the signing of the Agreed Framework in 1994;

   Inserted: (ii) during the period from 1994 through 2002 that the Agreed Framework was in effect; and

   Inserted: (iii) after the date that the United States and North Korea ceased adhering to the Agreed Framework in 2002; and

   Inserted: (B) an assessment of the number of plutonium and uranium-based nuclear weapons that the President--

   Inserted: (i) believes that North Korea has control of on the date of the enactment of the Act; and

   Inserted: (ii) projects that North Korea could have control of on the dates that are 1, 3, 5, and 10 years after the date of the enactment of this Act if diplomatic efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear materials in North Korea are unsuccessful.

   Inserted: (2) Form of report.--The report required by paragraph (1) shall be submitted in an unclassified form.

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