April 25, 2024
Opinion

Bill on N. Korea sanctions still awaits full House vote

No word yet on floor vote as Congressional recess, election campaigning loom

Nearly two months ago the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act, designed to crack down on both its human rights violations and nuclear proliferation.

It earned bipartisan support on the committee and one could argue that its passage was timely, coming just months after the UN Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK shed new light on the state of human rights in the North.

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