119-hr2622

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2622 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 2622

 To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to North 
 Korea's support for Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 April 3, 2025

Mr. Connolly (for himself, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Goldman of 
 New York, Mrs. Cherfilus-McCormick, Mr. Turner of Ohio, Mr. Keating, 
 Ms. Titus, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. Amo, Mrs. Radewagen, Mr. Quigley, and Mr. 
 Gottheimer) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees on the 
 Judiciary, Ways and Means, Financial Services, and Oversight and 
 Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the 
 Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
 within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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 A BILL

 To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to North 
 Korea's support for Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``Russia-North Korea Cooperation 
Sanctions Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

 Congress makes the following findings:

    (1) On February 24, 2022, the Government of the Russian 
 Federation, led by Vladimir Putin, launched an unprovoked, 
 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

    (2) On September 13, 2023, the Supreme Leader of the 
 Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Kim Jong 
 Un, met with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin to 
 discuss the transfer or sale of conventional arms to Russia to 
 be used in invasion of Ukraine's sovereign territory in 
 exchange for economic assistance and support for North Korea's 
 space, nuclear, and missile programs.

    (3) Kim Jong Un's trip to Russia will be his first known 
 travel outside North Korea since the COVID-19 pandemic and 
 subsequent lockdown of North Korea in early 2020.

    (4) North Korea maintains an arsenal of artillery shells, 
 rockets, and other conventional military equipment that it may 
 provide to Russia.

    (5) If Russia or Russian State-backed entities are 
 acquiring arms and related materiel from North Korea, such 
 actions would violate United Nations Security Council 
 resolutions, which were supported by Russia to prohibit North 
 Korea from exporting such items.

    (6) On August 16, 2023, the Department of the Treasury 
 imposed sanctions on three entities tied to a sanctions evasion 
 network attempting to support arms deals between Russia and 
 North Korea.

SEC. 3. SANCTIONS.

    (a) In General.--The President shall impose sanctions described in 
subsection

    (b) with respect to the following:

    (1) Any foreign person that is responsible for or 
 facilitates the transfer or sale of arms or material support 
 from North Korea to be used in Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.

    (2) Any foreign person that knowingly, directly or 
 indirectly, imports, exports, or reexports to, into, or from 
 North Korea any goods services or technology for weapons that 
 may be used by Russian forces or their proxies in Russia's 
 illegal war in Ukraine.

    (3) Any foreign financial institution that knowingly 
 facilitates a significant transaction or provides significant 
 financial services for a foreign person described in paragraph

    (1) or

    (2) .

    (4) Any foreign person that engages in a significant 
 transaction related to the transfer or sale of arms or material 
 support with a foreign person described in paragraph

    (1) or

    (2) or foreign financial institution described in paragraph

    (3) .

    (5) Any foreign person assisting in the logistical supply 
 and movement of North Korean arms or material support to be 
 used in Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.

    (b) Sanctions Described.--The sanctions described in this 
subsection are the following:

    (1) Blocking of property.--Notwithstanding the requirements 
 of 

section 202 of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
 Act (50 U.S.C. 1701), the President may exercise of all powers 
 granted to the President by that Act to the extent necessary to 
 block and prohibit all transactions in all property and 
 interests in property of the foreign person if such property 
 and interests in property are in the United States, come within 
 the United States, or are or come within the possession or 
 control of a United States person.

    (2) Visas, admission, or parole.--
        (A) In general.--An alien who the Secretary of 
 State or the Secretary of Homeland Security (or a 
 designee of one of such Secretaries) knows, or has 
 reason to believe, is described in subsection

    (a) is--
            (i) inadmissible to the United States;
            (ii) ineligible for a visa or other 
 documentation to enter the United States; and
            (iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 
 or paroled into the United States or to receive 
 any other benefit under the Immigration and 
 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.).
        (B) Current visas revoked.--
            (i) In general.--The issuing consular 
 officer, the Secretary of State, or the 
 Secretary of Homeland Security (or a designee 
 of one of such Secretaries) shall, in 
 accordance with 

section 221
            (i) of the 
 Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
 1201
            (i) ), revoke any visa or other entry 
 documentation issued to an alien described in 
 subparagraph
        (A) regardless of when the visa or 
 other entry documentation is issued.
            (ii) Effect of revocation.--A revocation 
 under clause
            (i) --
            (I) shall take effect immediately; 
 and
            (II) shall automatically cancel any 
 other valid visa or entry documentation 
 that is in the alien's possession.
            (c) Implementation; Penalties.--

    (1) Implementation.--The President may exercise all 
 authorities provided to the President under sections 203 and 
 205 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
 U.S.C. 1702 and 1704) to carry out this section.

    (2) Penalties.--The penalties provided for in subsections

    (b) and
            (c) of 

section 206 of the International Emergency 
 Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person 
 that violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or 
 causes a violation of regulations promulgated to carry out this 
 section to the same extent that such penalties apply to a 
 person that commits an unlawful act described in 

section 206

    (a) of that Act.
            (d) Waiver.--The President may waive the application of sanctions 
imposed with respect to a foreign person or foreign financial 
institution under this section if the President certifies to the 
appropriate congressional committees not later than 15 days before such 
waiver is to take effect that the waiver is vital to the national 
security interests of the United States.

    (e) Exception for Humanitarian Assistance.--An internationally 
recognized humanitarian organization shall not be subject to sanctions 
under this section with respect to--

    (1) engaging in a financial transaction relating to 
 humanitarian assistance or for humanitarian purposes pursuant 
 to a waiver issued under subsection
            (d) ;

    (2) transporting goods or services that are necessary to 
 carry out operations relating to humanitarian assistance or 
 humanitarian purposes pursuant to such a waiver issued under 
 subsection
            (d) ; or

    (3) having merely incidental contact, in the course of 
 providing humanitarian assistance or aid for humanitarian 
 purposes pursuant to a waiver issued under subsection
            (d) with 
 individuals who are under the control of a foreign person 
 subject to sanctions under this section.

SEC. 4. EXPANSION OF NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS AND POLICY ENHANCEMENT ACT 
 OF 2016.

 The North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 is 
amended as follows:

    (1) In 

section 401

    (a) (22 U.S.C. 9251

    (a) )--
        (A) in paragraph

    (5) , by striking ``and'' at the 
 end;
        (B) in paragraph

    (6) , by striking the period at the 
 end and inserting ``; and''; and
            (C) by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (7) halting material support (as such term is defined in 
 

section 6 of the Russia-North Korea Cooperation Sanctions Act) 
 for Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.''.

    (2) In 

section 402

    (2) (22 U.S.C. 9252

    (2) )--
        (A) in subparagraph
            (D) , by striking ``and'' at the 
 end;
        (B) in subparagraph
        (E)
            (ii) , by striking the period 
 at the end and inserting ``; and''; and
            (C) by adding at the end the following:
 ``
        (F) halting material support (as such term is 
 defined in 

section 6 of the Russia-North Korea 
 Cooperation Sanctions Act) for Russia's illegal war in 
 Ukraine.''.

SEC. 5. REPORT.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and every 180 days thereafter, the President 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that 
describes significant activities by the Democratic People's Republic of 
Korea to support the Russian Federation and its proxies in Russia's 
illegal war in Ukraine.

    (b) Matters To Be Included.--The report required by this section 
shall include the following:

    (1) The identity and nationality of foreign persons and 
 foreign financial institutions that are subject to sanctions 
 under 

section 3.

    (2) A description of the conduct engaged in by such persons 
 and institutions.

    (3) An assessment of the extent to which a foreign 
 government has provided material support to the Government of 
 North Korea or any person acting for or on behalf of that 
 Government to conduct significant activities to materially 
 support Russia's illegal war in Ukraine.

    (4) A United States strategy to counter North Korea's 
 efforts to conduct significant activities to support Russia's 
 war in Ukraine, that includes efforts to engage foreign 
 governments to halt the capability of the Government of North 
 Korea and persons acting for or on behalf of that Government to 
 conduct significant activities supporting Russia's illegal war 
 in Ukraine.
            (c) Form.--The report required by this section shall be submitted 
in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.

SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS.

 In this Act:

    (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
 ``appropriate congressional committees'' means the Committee on 
 Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 
 Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.

    (2) Foreign financial institution.--The term ``foreign 
 financial institution''--
        (A) has the meaning given that term in 

section 1010.605 of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations; and
        (B) includes a foreign central bank.

    (3) Material support.--The term ``material support'' has 
 the meaning given the term ``material support or resources'' in 
 

section 2339A of title 18, United States Code.
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