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22 U.S.C. § 7814 — Sense of Congress regarding negotiations with North Korea
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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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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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Congress makes the following findings:
(1) According to the Department of State, the Government of North Korea is “a dictatorship under the absolute rule of Kim Jong Il” that continues to commit numerous, serious human rights abuses.
(2) The Government of North Korea attempts to control all information, artistic expression, academic works, and media activity inside North Korea and strictly curtails freedom of speech and access to foreign broadcasts.
(3) The Government of North Korea subjects all its citizens to systematic, intensive political and ideological indoctrination in support of the cult of personality glorifying Kim Jong Il and the late Kim Il Sung that approaches the level of a state religion.
(4) The Government of North Korea divides its population into categories, based on perceived loyalty to the leadership, which determines access to food, employment, higher education, place of residence, medical facilities, and other resources.
(5) According to the Department of State, “[t]he [North Korean] Penal Code is [d]raconian, stipulating capital punishment and confiscation of assets for a wide variety of ‘crimes against the revolution,’ including defection, attempted defection, slander of the policies of the Party or State, listening to foreign broadcasts, writing ‘reactionary’ letters, and possessing reactionary printed matter”.
(6) The Government of North Korea executes political prisoners, opponents of the regime, some repatriated defectors, some members of underground churches, and others, sometimes at public meetings attended by workers, students, and schoolchildren.
(7) The Government of North Korea holds an estimated 200,000 political prisoners in camps that its State Security Agency manages through the use of forced labor, beatings, torture, and exe
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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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TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
§ 7814
casts by Radio Free Asia and Voice of Amer-
ica; and
(2) expand funding for nongovernmental or-
ganization broadcasting efforts, prioritizing
organizations that engage North Korean defec-
tors in programming and broadcast services.
(b) Report
Not later than 120 days after October 18, 2004,
the Broadcasting Board of Governors shall sub-
mit to the appropriate congressional commit-
tees a report that—
(1) describes the status of current United
States broadcasting to North Korea; and
(2) outlines a plan for increasing such broad-
casts to 12 hours per day, including a detailed
description of the technical and fiscal require-
ments necessary to implement the plan.
(Pub. L. 108–333, title I, § 103, Oct. 18, 2004, 118
Stat. 1291; Pub. L. 115–198, § 4, July 20, 2018, 132
Stat. 1521.)
Editorial Notes
AMENDMENTS
2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–198, § 4(1), (3), sub-
stituted ‘‘United States should—’’ for ‘‘United States
should’’, inserted par. (1) designation before ‘‘facili-
tate’’, and added par. (2).
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 115–198, § 4(2), substituted
‘‘broadcasting, including news rebroadcasting,’’ for
‘‘radio broadcasting’’, ‘‘increase such broadcasts, in-
cluding news rebroadcasts,’’ for ‘‘increase broadcasts’’,
and ‘‘Voice of America; and’’ for ‘‘Voice of America.’’
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
CHANGE OF NAME
Broadcasting Board of Governors renamed United
States Agency for Global Media pursuant to section
6204(a)(21) of this title. The renaming was effectuated
by notice to congressional appropriations committees
dated May 24, 2018, and became effective Aug. 22, 2018.
§ 7814. Actions to promote freedom of informa-
tion
(a) Actions
(1) In general
The President is authorized to
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