WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act calls for the Congress to appropriate $50 million between 2017 and 2021, largely to provide humanitarian assistance and improve radio broadcasting into North Korea.
“[I]mplementing the [North Korea Sanctions Enforcement] act would cost $44 million over the 2016-2021 period, assuming appropriation of the specified and estimated amounts,” the report, issued on Friday, said.
The act overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives in January and a similar bill was approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week.
The new sanctions act came in response to Pyongyang’s January 5 testing of a nuclear weapon.