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“Mr. Speaker, I commend the commitment that Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Engel have shown in holding North Korea accountable for its illicit activity, and it is a long list. Mr. Speaker, I want to also commend my good friend and colleague, Congressman Joe Wilson, for authoring this important measure, H. Res. 92, condemning North Korea's development of multiple intercontinental ballistic missiles, or ICBMs. Recently, North Korea has made the calculation that it either needs to flex its muscles through the test of ballistic missiles or, at the very least, provoke an international response so that the regime can use it as propaganda against the West. We have seen dozens of missile tests over the past year, and, just as troubling, at least two nuclear tests. I know that this is resolution condemning North Korea's provocative action, but I do think this is an opportunity to call attention to the Iranian nuclear and ballistic missile program. What I and some of my colleagues have been saying for years now is that Iran has been following the North Korea playbook. We signed a weak and dangerous nuclear deal with North Korea, and what was the result? A nuclear-armed Pyongyang that is testing and upgrading its ballistic and nuclear program unchecked and possibly even proliferating these materials, or at least the know-how, to Iran.…”