22 U.S.C. § 9203 — Strategy on North Korea

(a) Required strategy report. No later than 90 days after December 12, 2017, the President must send Congress a report explaining the United States strategy concerning North Korea^*. (b) Elements. The report required by subsection (a) must include: (1) a description and assessment of the main threats North Korea poses to United States national-security interests; (2) a description of known violations of current United Nations sanctions against North Korea by foreign nations, foreign entities, or individuals, together with parameters for deciding whether and on what timeline it serves United States interests to target those violators with unilateral secondary sanctions; (3) a description of China’s and Russia’s diplomatic, economic, and trade relationships with North Korea, including trends in those relationships and their effects on the Government of North Korea^*; (4) the diplomatic, economic, and security objectives for the Korean Peninsula and the desired end state in North Korea concerning the security threats coming from North Korea; (5) a detailed roadmap for reaching those objectives and that end state, including a timeline for each part of the roadmap; (6) the unilateral and multilateral options available to the United States concerning North Korea, together with an assessment of how much those options would impose costs on North Korea; (7) the resources and legal authorities needed to carry out the roadmap described in paragraph (5); (8) operational plans and related military requirements for protecting United States interests concerning North Korea; (9) any capability or resource gaps that could affect implementation of the strategy described in subsection (a), and a plan to address those gaps; (10) an assessment of current and desired contributions from partners to counter threats from North Korea, and a plan to improve cooperation among countries that share security interests concerning North Korea; and (11) any other matters the President considers appropriate. (c) Annual updates. Each year, the President must send Congress a written report describing and assessing progress in carrying out the strategy described in subsection (a). (d) Form. The report under subsection (a) and each report under subsection (c) must be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.