Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§7831 Report on United States humanitarian assistance

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 85— - NORTH KOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER II— - ASSISTING NORTH KOREANS IN NEED › § 7831

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 180 days after October 18, 2004, and then yearly through 2022, the USAID Administrator and the Secretary of State must send Congress a report. It must list U.S.-funded humanitarian aid for North Koreans, summarize one-year changes in transparency, monitoring, and access (including progress on subparagraphs (A)–(D) of section 7832(b)(1)), and describe U.S. and grantee efforts (including the World Food Program). The report must include a needs assessment. Details about the aid list may be provided in classified form if needed.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §7831

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(a)Not later than 180 days after October 18, 2004, and annually thereafter through 2022, the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, in conjunction with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that describes—
(1)all activities to provide humanitarian assistance inside North Korea, and to North Koreans outside of North Korea, that receive United States funding;
(2)any improvements in humanitarian transparency, monitoring, and access inside North Korea during the previous 1-year period, including progress toward meeting the conditions identified in subparagraphs (A) through (D) of section 7832(b)(1) of this title; and
(3)specific efforts to secure improved humanitarian transparency, monitoring, and access inside North Korea made by the United States and United States grantees, including the World Food Program, during the previous 1-year period.
(b)The report shall include a needs assessment to inform the distribution of humanitarian assistance inside North Korea.
(c)The information required by subsection (a)(1) may be provided in classified form if necessary.

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Amendments

2018—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 115–198, § 7(d)(1), substituted “2022” for “2017” in introductory provisions. Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 115–198, § 7(d)(2), (3), added subsec. (b) and redesignated former subsec. (b) as (c). 2012—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 112–172 substituted “2017” for “2012” in introductory provisions. 2008—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 110–346 substituted “annually thereafter through 2012” for “in each of the 2 years thereafter” in introductory provisions. 2004—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “subparagraphs (A) through (D) of section 7832(b)(1) of this title” for “paragraphs (1) through (4) of section 7832(b) of this title”.

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22 U.S.C. § 7831

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73