Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kansas), sponsor of the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, submitted Resolution 399, which calls for requiring several conditions before North Korea can be removed from the U.S. list of terrorism-sponsoring nations:

The resolution urges the administration not to lift the designation until it can be demonstrated that North Korea is no longer engaged in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and no longer counterfeiting American currency.

It also demands proof that a North Korean ruling party bureau, believed to be running illicit financial activities including drug trafficking and counterfeiting, has been made inoperable.

The senator also demands that the terrorist-nation designation remain until all U.S. overseas missions have been instructed to facilitate asylum applications by North Koreans seeking protection as refugees.

These are all common sense requirements, being made at a time when the State Department seems to be lacking much. While Brownback didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell at getting the Republican Presidential nomination, he has a solid track record on North Korean human rights issues.