; Whereas DPRK forces fired approximately 170 artillery shells and rockets at Yeonpyeong Island, hitting ROK military and civilian targets and killing two ROK marines and two civilians in November 2010; Whereas the DPRK agreed to cease long-range missile and nuclear tests in exchange for United States food aid in February 2012; Whereas the DPRK proceeded to test yet another long-range missile in April 2012; Whereas the DPRK has conducted almost three times the number of ballistic missile and nuclear weapons tests during Kim Jong-un’s six years in power than in the nearly 60 years before him under Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il; Whereas Kim Jong-un’s regime has accelerated the pace of its nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles program, by— (1) conducting 86 ballistic missile tests, successfully testing both ground-launched and submarine-launched solid fuel missiles; (2) conducting 20 ballistic missile flight tests in 2017, including a recent test that is reported to be capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and reaching anywhere in the continental United States; (3) improving upon missile ranges and testing re-entry capability; and (4) conducting a total of four nuclear weapon tests, including three that have occurred since January 2016 and a claimed hydrogen bomb test with a yield estimated to be 150 kilotons; Whereas a high ranking DPRK defector has publicly testified that as long as Kim Jong-un remains in power there is no chance to improve the human rights conditions in the DPRK and that Kim Jong-un will never relinquish the country’s nuclear capabilities; Whereas the collective development and testing of DPRK’s nuclear weapons program pose a real and critical threat to the United States and global stability; 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