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22 U.S.C. § 9211 — Findings; purposes
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**(a) Findings** Congress finds the following:
(1) The Government of North Korea—
(A) has repeatedly violated its commitments to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement of its nuclear weapons programs; and
(B) has willfully violated multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for North Korea to cease development, testing, and production of weapons of mass destruction.
(2) Based on its past actions, including the transfer of sensitive nuclear and missile technology to state sponsors of terrorism, North Korea poses a grave risk for the proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
(3) The Government of North Korea has been implicated repeatedly in money laundering and other illicit activities, including—
(A) prohibited arms sales;
(B) narcotics trafficking;
(C) the counterfeiting of United States currency;
(D) significant activities undermining cybersecurity; and
(E) the counterfeiting of intellectual property of United States persons.
(4) North Korea has—
(A) unilaterally withdrawn from the Agreement Concerning a Military Armistice in Korea, signed at Panmunjom July 27, 1953 (commonly referred to as the “Korean War Armistice Agreement”); and
(B) committed provocations against South Korea—
(i) by sinking the warship Cheonan and killing 46 of her crew on March 26, 2010;
(ii) by shelling Yeonpyeong Island and killing 4 South Korean civilians on November 23, 2010;
(iii) by its involvement in the “DarkSeoul” cyberattacks against the financial and communications interests of South Korea on March 20, 2013; and
(iv) by planting land mines near a guard post in the South Korean portion of the demilitarized zone that maimed 2 South Korean soldiers on August 4, 2015.
(5) N
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**(a) Findings** Congress finds the following:
(1) The Government of North Korea—
(A) has repeatedly violated its commitments to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement of its nuclear weapons programs; and
(B) has willfully violated multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions calling for North Korea to cease development, testing, and production of weapons of mass destruction.
(2) Based on its past actions, including the transfer of sensitive nuclear and missile technology to state sponsors of terrorism, North Korea poses a grave risk for the proliferation of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
(3) The Government of North Korea has been implicated repeatedly in money laundering and other illicit activities, including—
(A) prohibited arms sales;
(B) narcotics trafficking;
(C) the counterfeiting of United States currency;
(D) significant activities undermining cybersecurity; and
(E) the counterfeiting of intellectual property of United States persons.
(4) North Korea has—
(A) unilaterally withdrawn from the Agreement Concerning a Military Armistice in Korea, signed at Panmunjom July 27, 1953 (commonly referred to as the “Korean War Armistice Agreement”); and
(B) committed provocations against South Korea—
(i) by sinking the warship Cheonan and killing 46 of her crew on March 26, 2010;
(ii) by shelling Yeonpyeong Island and killing 4 South Korean civilians on November 23, 2010;
(iii) by its involvement in the “DarkSeoul” cyberattacks against the financial and communications interests of South Korea on March 20, 2013; and
(iv) by planting land mines near a guard post in the South Korean portion of the demilitarized zone that maimed 2 South Korean soldiers on August 4, 2015.
(5) North Korea maintains a system of brutal political prison camps that contain as many as 200,000 men, women, and children, who are—
(A) kept in atrocious living conditions with insufficient food, clothing, and medical care; and
(B) under constant fear of torture or arbitrary execution.
(6) North Korea has prioritized weapons programs and the procurement of luxury goods—
(A) in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1695 (2006), 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), and 2094 (2013); and
(B) in gross disregard of the needs of the people of North Korea.
(7) Persons, including financial institutions, who engage in transactions with, or provide financial services to, the Government of North Korea and its financial institutions without establishing sufficient financial safeguards against North Korea’s use of such transactions to promote proliferation, weapons trafficking, human rights violations, illicit activity, and the purchase of luxury goods—
(A) aid and abet North Korea’s misuse of the international financial system; and
(B) violate the intent of the United Nations Security Council resolutions referred to in paragraph (6)(A).
(8) The Government of North Korea has provided technical support and conducted destructive and coercive cyberattacks, including against Sony Pictures Entertainment and other United States persons.
(9) The conduct of the Government of North Korea poses an imminent threat to—
(A) the security of the United States and its allies;
(B) the global economy;
(C) the safety of members of the United States Armed Forces;
(D) the integrity of the global financial system;
(E) the integrity of global nonproliferation programs; and
(F) the people of North Korea.
(10) The Government of North Korea has sponsored acts of international terrorism, including—
(A) attempts to assassinate defectors and human rights activists; and
(B) the shipment of weapons to terrorists and state sponsors of terrorism.
**(b) Purposes** The purposes of this chapter are—
(1) to use nonmilitary means to address the crisis described in subsection (a);
(2) to provide diplomatic leverage to negotiate necessary changes in the conduct of the Government of North Korea;
(3) to ease the suffering of the people of North Korea; and
(4) to reaffirm the purposes set forth in [section 7802 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section7802&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Establishment of principles and standards** The Council shall establish uniform principles and standards and report forms for the examination of financial institutions which shall be applied by the Federal financial institutions regulatory agencies.
**(b) Making recommendations regarding supervisory matters and adequacy of supervisory tools**
(1) The Council shall make recommendations for uniformity in other supervisory matters, such as, but not limited to, classifying loans subject to country risk, identifying financial institutions in need of special supervisory attention, and evaluating the soundness of large loans that are shared by two or more financial institutions. In addition, the Council shall make recommendations regarding the adequacy of supervisory tools for determining the impact of holding company operations on the financial institutions within the holding company and shall consider the ability of supervisory agencies to discover possible fraud or questionable and illegal payments and practices which might occur in the operation of financial institutions or their holding companies.
(2) When a recommendation of the Council is found unacceptable by one or more of the applicable Federal financial institutions regulatory agencies, the agency or agencies shall submit to the Council, within a time period specified by the Council, a written statement of the reasons the recommendation is unacceptable.
**(c) Development of uniform reporting system** The Council shall develop uniform reporting systems for federally supervised financial institutions, their holding companies, and nonfinancial institution subsidiaries of such institutions or holding companies. The authority to develop uniform reporting systems shall not restrict or amend the requirements of s
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### Statutory Notes
#### Codification
Section, Pub. L. 92–340, § 16, as added Pub. L. 115–44, title III, § 315(a), Aug. 2, 2017, 131 Stat. 948, was redesignated and transferred to [section 70022 of Title 46](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title46-section70022&num=0&edition=prelim), Shipping, by Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXV [LXXXV], § 8508, Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4755, effective upon the enactment of section 401 of Pub. L. 115–282 and notwithstanding section 402(e) of Pub. L. 115–282, which repealed this chapter.
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**(a) Exception for certain natural gas projects** Nothing in this Act or the amendments made by this Act shall apply to any activity relating to a project—
(1) for the development of natural gas and the construction and operation of a pipeline to transport natural gas from Azerbaijan to Turkey and Europe;
(2) that provides to Turkey and countries in Europe energy security and energy independence from the Government of the Russian Federation and other governments with jurisdiction over persons subject to sanctions imposed under this Act or amendments made by this Act; and
(3) that was initiated before August 10, 2012, pursuant to a production-sharing agreement, or an ancillary agreement necessary to further a production-sharing agreement, entered into with, or a license granted by, the government of a country other than Iran before August 10, 2012.
**(b) Termination of exception**
(1) **In general** — The exception under subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a project described in that subsection on or after the date on which the President certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that—
(A) the percentage of the equity interest in the project held by or on behalf of an entity described in paragraph (2) has increased relative to the percentage of the equity interest in the project held by or on behalf of such an entity on January 1, 2002; or
(B) an entity described in paragraph (2) has assumed an operational role in the project.
(2) **Entity described** — An entity described in this paragraph is—
(A) an entity—
(i) owned or controlled by the Government of Iran or identified under section 560.304 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations (relating to the definition of the Government of Iran); or
(ii) organized under the laws of
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**(a) Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.—**
(1) **Establishment.—** — There is established within the Department of the Treasury the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence (in this section referred to as “OTFI”), which shall be the successor to any such office in existence on the date of enactment of this section.
(2) **Leadership.—**
(A) *Undersecretary.—* — There is established within the Department of the Treasury, the Office of the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes, who shall serve as the head of the OTFI, and shall report to the Secretary of the Treasury through the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. The Office of the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes shall be the successor to the Office of the Undersecretary for Enforcement.
(B) *Appointment.—* — The Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(3) **Assistant secretary for terrorist financing.—**
(A) *Establishment.—* — There is established within the OTFI the position of Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing.
(B) *Appointment.—* — The Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.
(C) *Duties.—* — The Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing shall be responsible for formulating and coordinating the counter terrorist financing and anti-money laundering efforts of the Department of the Treasury, and shall report directly to the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes.
(4) **Functions.—** — The functions of the OTFI include providing policy, strategic, and operational direction to the Department on issues relating to—
(A) implementation of titles I an
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**(a) Findings** Congress makes the following findings:
(1) All member states of the United Nations are obligated to implement and enforce applicable United Nations Security Council resolutions fully and promptly, including by blocking the property of, and ensuring that any property is prevented from being made available to, persons designated for the blocking of property by the Security Council under applicable United Nations Security Council resolutions.
(2) As of May 2015, 158 of the 193 member states of the United Nations had not submitted reports on measures taken to implement North Korea-specific United Nations Security Council resolutions 1718, 1874, and 2094.
(3) A recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO–15–485)—
(A) finds that officials of the United States and representatives of the United Nations Panel of Experts established pursuant to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874 (2009), which monitors and facilitates implementation of United Nations sanctions on North Korea, “agree that the lack of detailed reports from all member states is an impediment to the UN’s effective implementation of its sanctions”; and
(B) notes that “many member states lack the technical capacity to enforce sanctions and prepare reports” on the implementation of United Nations sanctions on North Korea.
(4) All member states share a common interest in protecting the international financial system from the risks of money laundering and illicit transactions emanating from North Korea.
(5) The United States dollar and the euro are the world’s principal reserve currencies, and the United States and the European Union are primarily responsible for the protection of the international financial system from the risks described in paragraph (4).
(6) The c
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It is the sense of Congress that the human rights of North Koreans should remain a key element in future negotiations between the United States, North Korea, and other concerned parties in Northeast Asia.
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**(a) Immigration and refugee information** Not later than 1 year after October 18, 2004, and every 12 months thereafter through 2022, the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the appropriate congressional committees and the Committees on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Senate on the operation of this subchapter during the previous year, which shall include the following:
(1) The number of aliens who are nationals or citizens of North Korea who applied for political asylum and the number who were granted political asylum.
(2) The number of aliens who are nationals or citizens of North Korea who applied for refugee status and the number who were granted refugee status.
(3) A detailed description of the measures undertaken by the Secretary of State to carry out [section 7843 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section7843&num=0&edition=prelim), including country-specific information with respect to United States efforts to secure the cooperation and permission of the governments of countries in East and Southeast Asia to facilitate United States processing of North Koreans seeking protection as refugees. The information required under this paragraph shall be provided in unclassified form, with a classified annex, if necessary.
**(b) Countries of particular concern** The President shall include in each annual report on proposed refugee admission pursuant to [section 1157(d) of title 8](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1157/d&num=0&edition=prelim), information about specific measures taken to facilitate access to the United States refugee program for individuals who have fled countries of particular concern f
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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 9211
Republic of Korea is no longer engaged in the illicit
activities described in such Executive orders, includ-
ing actions in violation of the United Nations Secu-
rity Council resolutions referred to in subsection
(a)(1).
‘‘(2) REPORT.—Not later than 30 days after termi-
nating any sanction with respect to the activities of
the Government of the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea, a person acting for or on behalf of such gov-
ernment, or any other person provided for in an Exec-
utive order listed in subsection (a), the Secretary of
State, in consultation with the Secretary of the
Treasury, shall submit a report to the appropriate
congressional committees justifying the termination
of the sanction and explaining the relationship be-
tween such termination and the cessation of any il-
licit activity that violates any of the United Nations
Security Council resolutions referred to in subsection
(a)(1) by such Government or person. The reporting
requirement under this paragraph shall terminate on
the date that is 5 years after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act [Dec. 31, 2018].
‘‘(3) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sub-
section shall be construed to limit the authority of
the President pursuant to the International Emer-
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.).
‘‘(c) POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES WITH RESPECT TO
NEGOTIATION ON THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF
KOREA’S NUCLEAR AND BALLISTIC MISSILE PROGRAMS.—
It is the policy of the United States that the objective
of negotiations with respect to the nuclear and ballistic
missile programs of the Democratic People’s Republic
of Korea be the complete, verifiable, and irreversible
dismantlement of such programs.
‘‘(d) REPO
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