To express the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of State should redesignate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.

SA 1597. Mr. BROWNBACK (for himself and Mr. Bayh) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 1390, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2010 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1232. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON REDESIGNATION OF NORTH
KOREA AS A STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM.

(a) Findings.--The Senate makes the following findings:
(1) On October 11, 2008, the Department of State removed
North Korea from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, on
which it had been placed in 1988.
(2) North Korea was removed from that list despite its
refusal to account fully for its abduction of foreign
citizens, proliferation of nuclear and other dangerous
technologies and weapon systems to terrorist groups and other
state sponsors of terrorism, or its commission of other past
acts of terrorism.
(3) On March 17, 2009, American journalists Euna Lee and
Laura Ling were seized near the Chinese-North Korean border
by agents of the North Korean government and were
subsequently sentenced to 12 years of hard labor in a prison
camp in North Korea.
(4) On April 5, 2009, the Government of North Korea tested
a long-range ballistic missile in violation of United Nations
Security Council Resolutions 1695 and 1718.
(5) On April 15, 2009, the Government of North Korea
announced it was expelling international inspectors from, and
recommissioning, its Yongbyon nuclear facility and ending its
participation in disarmament talks.
(6) Those actions were in violation of the June 26, 2008,
announcement by the President of the United States that the
removal of North Korea from the list of state sponsors of
terrorism was dependent on the Government of North Korea
agreeing to a system to verify its declarations with respect
to its nuclear programs.
(7) On May 25, 2009, the Government of North Korea
conducted a second illegal nuclear test, in addition to
conducting tests of its ballistic missile systems launched in
the direction of the western United States.
(8) North Korea has failed to acknowledge or account for
its role in building and supplying the secret nuclear
facility at Al Kibar, Syria, has failed to account for all
remaining citizens of Japan abducted by North Korea, and,
according to recent reports, continues to engage in close
cooperation with the terrorist Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Corps on ballistic missile technology.
(9) There have been recent credible reports that North
Korea has provided support to the terrorist group Hezbollah,
including by providing ballistic missile components and
personnel to train members of Hezbollah with respect to the
development of extensive underground military facilities in
southern Lebanon, including tunnels and bunkers.
(10) The 2005 and 2006 Country Reports on Terrorism of the
Department of State state, with respect to Cuba, Iran, North
Korea, and Syria, ``Most worrisome is that some of these
countries also have the capability to manufacture WMD and
other destabilizing technologies that can get into the hands
of terrorists. The United States will continue to insist that
these countries end the support they give to terrorist
groups.''.
(11) President Barack Obama stated that actions of the
Government of North Korea ``are a matter of grave concern to
all nations. North Korea's attempts to develop nuclear
weapons, as well as its ballistic missile program, constitute
a threat to international peace and security. By acting in
blatant defiance of the United Nations Security Council,
North Korea is directly and recklessly challenging the
international community. North Korea's behavior increases
tensions and undermines stability in Northeast Asia. Such
provocations will only serve to deepen North Korea's
isolation. It will not find international acceptance unless
it abandons it pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and
their means of delivery.''.
(b) Sense of the Senate.--It is the sense of the Senate
that the Secretary of State should designate North Korea as a
country that has repeatedly provided support for acts of
international terrorism for purposes of--
(1) section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act of 1979
(50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)) (as continued in effect pursuant to
the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C.
1701 et seq.));
(2) section 40 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C.
2780); and
(3) section 620A of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22
U.S.C. 2371).
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