1. Prohibition on lifting of United States sanctions imposed with respect to North Korea (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) has a history of cheating on nuclear accords. (2) The United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea concluded in 2014 that Kim Jong Un and the North Korean leadership was perpetrating unspeakable atrocities against its own people on a vast scale and committed widespread, systematic, and gross violations that amount to crimes against humanity. (3) The chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea called these atrocities strikingly similar to crimes committed by Nazi Germany in World War II, including execution, enslavement, starvation, rape, and forced abortion, and warned Kim Jong Un of his own personal culpability in a special letter attached to the report. (4) Under Kim Jong Un’s leadership, there are reports of newborn babies in prison being fed to guard dogs, punishment and possible execution of starving prisoners caught digging for edible plants, and forced abortions. (5) Kim Jong Un, after taking over the leadership of North Korea, launched political purges, encompassing relatives, including his uncle and half-brother, who was murdered by a chemical weapon in Malaysia in 2017. (6) Otto Warmbier, a 22-year-old American college student, was brutally tortured by the North Korean regime under Kim Jong Un and died shortly after his release from North Korea. (b) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— (1) any negotiation with North Korea regarding denuclearization should include an equivalent demand for transparency regarding North Korea’s human rights situation; (2) the United States should not trust Kim Jong Un and the leadership of North Korea to voluntarily and peacefully end its nuclear program as long as they continue to commit mass atrocities against the North Korean people