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Week Ending June 26, 2009

Presidential Notice – Continuation of the national emergency with respect to North Korea.

The President sees the need to continue the national emergency regarding North Korea based on the perceived threat to the national security and foreign policy of the US because of the risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula.

After some negotiations with North Korea in 2007 and 2008 the Bush Administration, as required by law, certified to Congress that the North Korean threat was waning and that some sanctions prohibiting doing business and trade with North Korea could be lifted.

Due to rhetoric and behavior of the North Korea government, the President takes this action to reverse the Bush decision and further enforce the sanctions.

The Notification goes further to explain that the “existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula continue to pose and unusual and extraordinary threat prompting the restriction under the ‘Doing Business with the Enemy” clause of the National Emergencies Act.

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