; Whereas the United Nations Security Council has passed nine sanctions resolutions regarding North Korea’s nuclear missile and space development programs since North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006; Whereas the United States Congress passed the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 ( Public Law 114–122 ) in February 2016 and the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act ( Public Law 115–44 ) in July 2017 to provide sanction authorities to deter the DPRK’s provocative behavior; Whereas the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution to sanction the DPRK economy in September 2017; Whereas the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), in its 2017 Worldwide Threat Assessment, assessed that North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction program, public threats, defiance of the international community, confrontational military posturing, cyber activities, and potential for internal instability pose a complex and increasingly grave national security threat to the United States and its interests ; Whereas the DNI further assessed that Kim is intent on proving the DPRK’s capability to strike the contiguous United States with nuclear weapons; Whereas the People’s Republic of China accounts for 80 to 90 percent of trade with DPRK; Whereas the People’s Republic of China acts as the DPRK’s primary advocate and must join the United States in a committed effort to dismantling the DPRK nuclear and missile programs; and Whereas the President has authority to impose secondary sanctions on any financial institution or other entity that conducts business with DPRK entities in order to apply maximum pressure on the regime to abandon their nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs: Now, therefore, be it