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S.3728 A bill to promote nuclear nonproliferation in North Korea.

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The bill says it should be the policy of the US “to impose sanctions on persons who transfer such weapons, and goods and technology related to such weapons, to and from North Korea in the same manner as persons who transfer such items to and from Iran and Syria currently are sanctioned under United States law.”

The international community should exercise vigilance to prevent :

“missile and missile-related items, materials, goods, and technology from being transferred to North Korea's missile or weapons of mass destruction programs; and the procurement of missiles or missile-related items, materials, goods, and technology from North Korea, and the transfer of any financial resources in relation to North Korea's missile or weapons of mass destruction programs.”

Sponsor: Senator William Frist (R-TN)

Vote: Scheduled for consideration July 28, 2006

Cost to the taxpayers: No discernible cost.

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(a) In view of --

(1) North Korea's manifest determination to produce missiles, nuclear weapons, and other weapons of mass destruction and to proliferate missiles, in violation of international norms and expectations; and

(2) United Nations Security Council Resolution 1695, adopted on July 15, 2006, which requires all Member States, in accordance with their national legal authorities and consistent with international law, to exercise vigilance and prevent--

(A) missile and missile-related items, materials, goods, and technology from being transferred to North Korea's missile or weapons of mass destruction programs; and

(B) the procurement of missiles or missile-related items, materials, goods, and technology from North Korea, and the transfer of any financial resources in relation to North Korea's missile or weapons of mass destruction programs,

it should be the policy of the United States to impose sanctions on persons who transfer such weapons, and goods and technology related to such weapons, to and from North Korea in the same manner as persons who transfer such items to and from Iran and Syria currently are sanctioned under United States law

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