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The bill cites international press reports that indicate North Korea has provided ‘Iran's surrogates, Hezbollah and Hamas, with both missile technology and training in tunneling techniques with which to attack Israel’; and that North Korea assisted Syria in the construction of ‘a nuclear reactor… destroyed in a strike by Israeli forces on September 6, 2007.’ Would require the Secy. State to designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism and would allow the president to waive the designation upon certification that, inter alia, North Korea has not transferred missile or nuclear technology to Iran or Syria and has not trained, harbored, supplied, or financed Hamas or Hizballah for the previous five years. Requires the president to submit a report to Congress describing the actions taken by the United States in response to the transfer of nuclear technology by North Korea to Syria and its efforts to prevent further transfers.
See also: similar measures S. 837 of 4/20/09 and H.R. 1980 of 4/21/09; and related measures H.R. 485 of 1/13/09, H.R. 1260 of 2/26/09, H.R. 1288 of 3/3/09, H.R. 2290 of 5/6/09, and H.R. 3107 of 6/26/09.