Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§7831 Report on United States Humanitarian Assistance

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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

Within 180 days after October 18, 2004, and every year after that through 2022, the USAID Administrator, with the Secretary of State, must send a report to the appropriate congressional committees. The report must list all U.S.-funded humanitarian help inside North Korea and to North Koreans outside the country. It must say any changes in openness, monitoring, and access for aid inside North Korea during the past year, including progress on the conditions in section 7832(b)(1), subparagraphs (A) through (D). The report must also describe steps the U.S. and its grantees, including the World Food Program, took in the past year to improve openness, monitoring, and access, and must include a needs assessment to guide how aid is given. The list of activities may be submitted in classified form if needed.

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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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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 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60