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119THCONGRESS
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STSESSION H. R. 2622
To provide for the imposition of sanctions with respect to North Korea’s
support for Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL3, 2025
Mr. C
ONNOLLY(for himself, Mr. WILSONof South Carolina, Mr. GOLDMAN
of New York, Mrs. C
HERFILUS-MCCORMICK, Mr. TURNERof Ohio, Mr.
K
EATING, Ms. TITUS, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Mr. AMO, Mrs. RADEWAGEN, Mr.
Q
UIGLEY, 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 deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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 Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Russia-North Korea 4
Cooperation Sanctions Act’’. 5
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 6
Congress makes the following findings: 7
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(1) On February 24, 2022, the Government of 1
the Russian Federation, led by Vladimir Putin, 2
launched an unprovoked, full-scale invasion of 3
Ukraine. 4
(2) On September 13, 2023, the Supreme 5
Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of 6
Korea (North Korea), Kim Jong Un, met with Rus-7
sian Federation President Vladimir Putin to discuss 8
the transfer or sale of conventional arms to Russia 9
to be used in invasion of Ukraine’s sovereign terri-10
tory in exchange for economic assistance and sup-11
port for North Korea’s space, nuclear, and missile 12
programs. 13
(3) Kim Jong Un’s trip to Russia will be his 14
first known travel outside North Korea since the 15
COVID–19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown of 16
North Korea in early 2020. 17
(4) North Korea maintains an arsenal of artil-18
lery shells, rockets, and other conventional military 19
equipment that it may provide to Russia. 20
(5) If Russia or Russian State-backed entities 21
are acquiring arms and related materiel from North 22
Korea, such actions would violate United Nations 23
Security Council resolutions, which were supported 24
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by Russia to prohibit North Korea from exporting 1
such items. 2
(6) On August 16, 2023, the Department of the 3
Treasury imposed sanctions on three entities tied to 4
a sanctions evasion network attempting to support 5
arms deals between Russia and North Korea. 6
SEC. 3. SANCTIONS. 7
(a) I
NGENERAL.—The President shall impose sanc-8
tions described in subsection (b) with respect to the fol-9
lowing: 10
(1) Any foreign person that is responsible for or 11
facilitates the transfer or sale of arms or material 12
support from North Korea to be used in Russia’s il-13
legal war in Ukraine. 14
(2) Any foreign person that knowingly, directly 15
or indirectly, imports, exports, or reexports to, into, 16
or from North Korea any goods services or tech-17
nology for weapons that may be used by Russian 18
forces or their proxies in Russia’s illegal war in 19
Ukraine. 20
(3) Any foreign financial institution that know-21
ingly facilitates a significant transaction or provides 22
significant financial services for a foreign person de-23
scribed in paragraph (1) or (2). 24
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(4) Any foreign person that engages in a sig-1
nificant transaction related to the transfer or sale of 2
arms or material support with a foreign person de-3
scribed in paragraph (1) or (2) or foreign financial 4
institution described in paragraph (3). 5
(5) Any foreign person assisting in the logistical 6
supply and movement of North Korean arms or ma-7
terial support to be used in Russia’s illegal war in 8
Ukraine. 9
(b) S
ANCTIONSDESCRIBED.—The sanctions de-10
scribed in this subsection are the following: 11
(1) B
LOCKING OF PROPERTY .—Notwith-12
standing the requirements of section 202 of the 13
International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 14
U.S.C. 1701), the President may exercise of all pow-15
ers granted to the President by that Act to the ex-16
tent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions 17
in all property and interests in property of the for-18
eign person if such property and interests in prop-19
erty are in the United States, come within the 20
United States, or are or come within the possession 21
or control of a United States person. 22
(2) V
ISAS, ADMISSION, OR PAROLE.— 23
(A) I
N GENERAL.—An alien who the Sec-24
retary of State or the Secretary of Homeland 25
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Security (or a designee of one of such Secre-1
taries) knows, or has reason to believe, is de-2
scribed in subsection (a) is— 3
(i) inadmissible to the United States; 4
(ii) ineligible for a visa or other docu-5
mentation to enter the United States; and 6
(iii) otherwise ineligible to be admitted 7
or paroled into the United States or to re-8
ceive any other benefit under the Immigra-9
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et 10
seq.). 11
(B) C
URRENT VISAS REVOKED .— 12
(i) I
N GENERAL.—The issuing con-13
sular officer, the Secretary of State, or the 14
Secretary of Homeland Security (or a des-15
ignee of one of such Secretaries) shall, in 16
accordance with section 221(i) of the Im-17
migration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 18
1201(i)), revoke any visa or other entry 19
documentation issued to an alien described 20
in subparagraph (A) regardless of when 21
the visa or other entry documentation is 22
issued. 23
(ii) E
FFECT OF REVOCATION .—A rev-24
ocation under clause (i)— 25
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(I) shall take effect immediately; 1
and 2
(II) shall automatically cancel 3
any other valid visa or entry docu-4
mentation that is in the alien’s pos-5
session. 6
(c) I
MPLEMENTATION; PENALTIES.— 7
(1) I
MPLEMENTATION.—The President may ex-8
ercise all authorities provided to the President under 9
sections 203 and 205 of the International Emer-10
gency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1702 and 11
1704) to carry out this section. 12
(2) P
ENALTIES.—The penalties provided for in 13
subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the Inter-14
national Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 15
U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to a person that violates, 16
attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a 17
violation of regulations promulgated to carry out 18
this section to the same extent that such penalties 19
apply to a person that commits an unlawful act de-20
scribed in section 206(a) of that Act. 21
(d) W
AIVER.—The President may waive the applica-22
tion of sanctions imposed with respect to a foreign person 23
or foreign financial institution under this section if the 24
President certifies to the appropriate congressional com-25
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mittees not later than 15 days before such waiver is to 1
take effect that the waiver is vital to the national security 2
interests of the United States. 3
(e) E
XCEPTION FORHUMANITARIANASSISTANCE.— 4
An internationally recognized humanitarian organization 5
shall not be subject to sanctions under this section with 6
respect to— 7
(1) engaging in a financial transaction relating 8
to humanitarian assistance or for humanitarian pur-9
poses pursuant to a waiver issued under subsection 10
(d); 11
(2) transporting goods or services that are nec-12
essary to carry out operations relating to humani-13
tarian assistance or humanitarian purposes pursuant 14
to such a waiver issued under subsection (d); or 15
(3) having merely incidental contact, in the 16
course of providing humanitarian assistance or aid 17
for humanitarian purposes pursuant to a waiver 18
issued under subsection (d) with individuals who are 19
under the control of a foreign person subject to 20
sanctions under this section. 21
SEC. 4. EXPANSION OF NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS AND 22
POLICY ENHANCEMENT ACT OF 2016. 23
The North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement 24
Act of 2016 is amended as follows: 25
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(1) In section 401(a) (22 U.S.C. 9251(a))— 1
(A) in paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 2
the end; 3
(B) in paragraph (6), by striking the pe-4
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 5
(C) by adding at the end the following: 6
‘‘(7) halting material support (as such term is 7
defined in section 6 of the Russia-North Korea Co-8
operation Sanctions Act) for Russia’s illegal war in 9
Ukraine.’’. 10
(2) In section 402(2) (22 U.S.C. 9252(2))— 11
(A) in subparagraph (D), by striking 12
‘‘and’’ at the end; 13
(B) in subparagraph (E)(ii), by striking 14
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 15
and 16
(C) by adding at the end the following: 17
‘‘(F) halting material support (as such 18
term is defined in section 6 of the Russia-North 19
Korea Cooperation Sanctions Act) for Russia’s 20
illegal war in Ukraine.’’. 21
SEC. 5. REPORT. 22
(a) I
NGENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 23
date of the enactment of this Act, and every 180 days 24
thereafter, the President shall submit to the appropriate 25
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congressional committees a report that describes signifi-1
cant activities by the Democratic People’s Republic of 2
Korea to support the Russian Federation and its proxies 3
in Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine. 4
(b) M
ATTERSTOBEINCLUDED.—The report re-5
quired by this section shall include the following: 6
(1) The identity and nationality of foreign per-7
sons and foreign financial institutions that are sub-8
ject to sanctions under section 3. 9
(2) A description of the conduct engaged in by 10
such persons and institutions. 11
(3) An assessment of the extent to which a for-12
eign government has provided material support to 13
the Government of North Korea or any person act-14
ing for or on behalf of that Government to conduct 15
significant activities to materially support Russia’s 16
illegal war in Ukraine. 17
(4) A United States strategy to counter North 18
Korea’s efforts to conduct significant activities to 19
support Russia’s war in Ukraine, that includes ef-20
forts to engage foreign governments to halt the ca-21
pability of the Government of North Korea and per-22
sons acting for or on behalf of that Government to 23
conduct significant activities supporting Russia’s il-24
legal war in Ukraine. 25
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(c) FORM.—The report required by this section shall 1
be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a clas-2
sified annex. 3
SEC. 6. DEFINITIONS. 4
In this Act: 5
(1) A
PPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT -6
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-7
mittees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 8
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 9
Foreign Relations of the Senate. 10
(2) F
OREIGN FINANCIAL INSTITUTION .—The 11
term ‘‘foreign financial institution’’— 12
(A) has the meaning given that term in 13
section 1010.605 of title 31, Code of Federal 14
Regulations; and 15
(B) includes a foreign central bank. 16
(3) M
ATERIAL SUPPORT.—The term ‘‘material 17
support’’ has the meaning given the term ‘‘material 18
support or resources’’ in section 2339A of title 18, 19
United States Code. 20
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