Whereas the safety and security of the American people is the first and foremost responsibility of the President of the United States and the United States Congress; Whereas there is no greater and more urgent threat to the safety and welfare of the American people than a nuclear weapons threat from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea); Whereas the February 13, 2018, Worldwide Threat Assessment of the intelligence community stated that North Korea will be among the most volatile and confrontational WMD [weapons of mass destruction] threats to the United States over the next year. ; Whereas the United States has agreed to four sets of missile and nuclear negotiations with North Korea: the bilateral Agreed Framework (1994–2002), the bilateral missile negotiations (1996–2000), the multilateral Six-Party Talks (2003–2009), and the bilateral Leap Day Deal (2012); these negotiations alone proved insufficient to forestall North Korea from advancing its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs; Whereas the Korean War saw as many as four million casualties, including over 800,000 American, South Korean, and other United Nations forces, and as many as one million South Korean civilians; Whereas of the American casualties, more than 36,000 were killed and more than 7,800 remain unaccounted for; Whereas Secretary of Defense Secretary James Mattis has warned that war on the Korean Peninsula would be probably the worst kind of fighting in most people’s lifetimes. ; Whereas Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford remarked that a military option with North Korea would be horrific on a scale not seen since World War II; Whereas a war between the United States and North Korea has the potential to spread beyond the Korean Peninsula to include China, Russia, and Japan