Politico:
Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said the House will vote on sanctions against North Korea next week in response to the nation’s continued nuclear weapons testing.
“The time for waiting on North Korea to get its act together is over,” he said in a statement released Thursday.
According to McCarthy, the sanctions, called the Korean Interdiction and Modernization of Sanctions Act, will target the rogue state’s shipping industry as part of an attempt to crack down on their slave labor market. The bill was introduced by House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce.
McCarthy said the bill “will deliver a strong and bipartisan message that North Korea and its provocations must be addressed now.”
