1. Short title This Act may be cited as the North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017 . 2. Report on designation of Government of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The United States Government designated the Government of North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism on January 20, 1988. (2) On October 11, 2008, North Korea’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism was rescinded, following commitments by the Government of North Korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons program. However, North Korea has failed to live up to these commitments. (3) On October 22, 2015, the U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy with the Department of State testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade that North Korea’s conduct poses a growing threat to the United States, our friends in the region, and the global nonproliferation regime and the Deputy Coordinator for Homeland Security, Screening, and Designations with the Department of State noted that weapons transfers that violate nonproliferation or missile control regimes could be a relevant factor for consideration, depending on the circumstances, consistent with the statutory criteria for designation as a state sponsor of terrorism . (4) The Government of North Korea has harbored members of the Japanese Red Army since a 1970 hijacking and continues to harbor the surviving hijackers to this day. (5) On July 16, 2010, in the case of Calderon-Cardona v. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (case number 08–01367), the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico found that the Government of North Korea provided material support to the Japanese Red Army, designated as a foreign terrorist organization between 1997 and 2001, in furtherance of a 1972 terrorist attack at Lod Airport, Israel, that killed 26 people, including 17 Americans. (6) In the case of Chaim Kaplan v. Hezbollah (case number 09–646), a United States