Identical, bipartisan bills introduced in the House and Senate are looking to establish Congressional oversight over the Trump Administration’s diplomatic efforts with North Korea.
The main aspects of the bill are to require regular briefings and
hearings, and special briefings after every round of senior-level talks
with North Korea. They also want to reaffirm that the US must maintain
sanctions against North Korea, and must insist on complete
denuclearization as a requirement of any deal.
On the surface it seems like just an attempt for Congress to assert some
involvement in a major foreign policy situation. The bill’s proponents,
however, are the ones broadly against diplomacy in the first place, and
who were opposed to the possibility of a deal ending generations of
military tension on the Korean Peninsula.
This suggests that the point of the new oversight bill is less about
exercising actual oversight, than to try to further undercut the process
in general, and block any progress that might start approaching a real
deal.
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