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Senate panel approves measure to broaden North Korea sanctions
Source: Reuters
Politics | Thu Jan 28, 2016 12:32pm EST
Senate panel approves measure to broaden North Korea sanctions
WASHINGTON | BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would broaden sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear program, human rights record and cyber activities, amid growing international concern over Pyongyang's weapons program.
The committee passed the measure by unanimous voice vote and members said they expected it would be approved by the full Senate within weeks, and, eventually, signed into law by President Barack Obama.
Republican Senator Bob Corker, the panel's chairman, said the full Senate was due to begin considering the legislation during the week of Feb. 8.
U.S. lawmakers have been clamoring for a clampdown on North Korea since Pyongyang's announcement early this month that it had tested a hydrogen bomb. The House of Representatives passed its own, less extensive, bill to broaden sanctions on Jan. 12 by a near unanimous 418-2.
The Senate bill calls for sanctions on anyone who engages in, facilitates or contributes to North Korea's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, arms-related materials, luxury goods, human rights abuses, activities undermining cyber security and the provision of metals or coal for use in such activities.
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Senate panel approves measure to broaden North Korea sanctions
WASHINGTON | BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved legislation on Thursday that would broaden sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear program, human rights record and cyber activities, amid growing international concern over Pyongyang's weapons program.
The committee passed the measure by unanimous voice vote and members said they expected it would be approved by the full Senate within weeks, and, eventually, signed into law by President Barack Obama.
Republican Senator Bob Corker, the panel's chairman, said the full Senate was due to begin considering the legislation during the week of Feb. 8.
U.S. lawmakers have been clamoring for a clampdown on North Korea since Pyongyang's announcement early this month that it had tested a hydrogen bomb. The House of Representatives passed its own, less extensive, bill to broaden sanctions on Jan. 12 by a near unanimous 418-2.
The Senate bill calls for sanctions on anyone who engages in, facilitates or contributes to North Korea's proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, arms-related materials, luxury goods, human rights abuses, activities undermining cyber security and the provision of metals or coal for use in such activities.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-sanctions-idUSKCN0V6257