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Congress passes new North Korea sanctions bill

Enhanced sanctions pass first legislative hurdle, set for Senate vote

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed new sanctions against North Korea in Washington D.C. on Thursday.

H.R. 1644, or the Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act, passed the house with 419 votes in favor of the legislation and only one vote against it. 

“North Korea poses an urgent threat to the United States and our allies. In less than four years, the regime may be capable of targeting the entire U.S. homeland with a nuclear missile,” Republican Congressman and co-author of the bill, Ed Royce, said on the bill’s passage.

“The threat from North Korea is real, and