; Whereas any good made by North Korean labor, wholly or in part, is prohibited from entry into the United States market by section 321 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (P.L. 115–44); Whereas Members of Congress, on a bipartisan basis, have urged the Department of Homeland Security to take action to stop seafood imports from China to enter the United States market, until importers show that no North Korean or Uyghur labor was used in processing; Whereas, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea in 2023, as many as 2,000 North Korean asylum seekers and refugees were arrested and detained in China during the COVID–19 lockdown; Whereas at a July 2023 hearing at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China titled North Korean Refugees and the Imminent Danger of Forced Repatriation from China, satellite images were shown detailing expanded detention facilities for North Koreans in China; Whereas United Nations Third Committee adopted a resolution (A/C.3.78/L.39) in November 2023, reminded UN member states, without naming the People’s Republic of China, to comply with its obligations to protect North Korean refugees under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1951 (1951 United Nations Refugee Convention), and its Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees of 1967 (1967 United Nations Refugee Protocol), which defines a refugee as a person who, owing to well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country