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| https://www.gardner.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/gardner-and-colleagues-urge-un-ambassador-to-impose-sanctions-maximum-pressure-on-north-korea | Gardner and Colleagues Urge U.N. Ambassador to Impose Sanctions, Maximum Pressure on North Korea | 2019-12-19 | 2019 | 2019-12 | Republican | House | CO | Cory Gardner | G000562 | www.gardner.senate.gov | legacy | Washington, D.C. U.S.Senator CoryGardner (R-CO), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft urging she make clear the Trump administration intends to fully implement the maximum pressure policy on North Korea and impose sanctions as required by law.The letter was also signed by U.S. Senators Todd Young (R-IN), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Joni Ernst (R-IA), and Tom Cotton (R-AR), who all serve on either the Senate Foreign Relations Committee or the Senate Armed Services Committee. We write with deep concern regarding recent statements and actions by the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK), which seem to indicate the DPRK intends to resume long-range missile tests and other serious provocations in the near future, in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions,the senators wrote.We urge you to make clear that the Trump Administration intends to fully implement the maximum pressure' policy, including by the continued imposition of sanctions against the DPRK pursuant to U.S. law. We note with regret that the pace of unilateral U.S. designations of entities violating DPRK sanctions has slowed considerably since the Trump-Kim summit diplomacy' began. We urge you to work with your interagency colleagues to fully implement U.S. law. North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations recently stated that North Korea has no intentions to denuclearize, and the comments come as an end-of-the-year deadline set by dictator Kim Jong Un approaches to see progress in negotiations with the United States. Earlier this month, a North Korean official warned it was up to the U.S. to choose what it would receive as a Christmas gift from Pyongyang. The full letter is availablehereand below: Dear Ambassador Craft: We write with deep concern regarding recent statements and actions by the Democratic Republic of Korea (DPRK), which seem to indicate the DPRK intends to resume long-range missile tests and other serious provocations in the near future, in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions. We are likewise concerned by a recent statement from the DPRK Ambassador to the UN Kim Song, stating that denuclearization is off the table as part of potential future negotiations with the United States. We agree with your remarks at the UN Security Council Briefing on the DPRK on December 11, 2019, where you stated that over the past year and a half, the DPRK has continued to advance its prohibited programs, test its prohibited programs, and repeatedly refuse to engage in sustained diplomatic engagement. It is unfortunate, but consistent with the Kim family playbook, that the willingness of the United States to engage in meaningful dialogue with the DPRK has been met by Pyongyang's mendacity and deception. Therefore, we urge you to continue to make clear that United States policy will remain to seek complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the DPRK, a longstanding policy goal enshrined in U.S. law, including the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act (Public Law 114-122) and the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (Public Law 115-409). We also urge you to make clear, including to your counterparts from theRussian Federation and the People's Republic of China, that the United States will never support lifting any mandatory UN Security Council sanctions against the DPRK until the DPRK fully complies with international law and ceases the behavior for which these sanctions were imposed in the first place. In addition, we urge you to make clear that the Trump Administration intends to fully implement the maximum pressure policy, including by the continued imposition of sanctions against the DPRK pursuant to U.S. law. We note with regret that the pace of unilateral U.S. designations of entities violating DPRK sanctions has slowed considerably since the Trump-Kim summit diplomacy began. We urge you to work with your interagency colleagues to fully implement U.S. law, including by designating additional Chinese and Russian entities as appropriate. We also urge to emphasize that the United States will continue to highlight DPRK's atrocious human rights record at the United Nations and all other appropriate fora, including as part of any bilateral engagements with the DPRK. The United States must remain a global leader in highlighting Pyongyang's abuses against its people and its complicity in other atrocities, such as the 2017 murder of American student Otto Warmbier. We look forward to your response and to working with you to achieve these goals. ### Cory Gardner is a member of the U.S. Senate serving Colorado. He sits on the Energy & Natural Resources Committee, the Foreign Relations Committee, the Commerce, Science, & Transportation Committee, and is the Chairman of the Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |