The U.S. House of Representatives committee with jurisdiction over American foreign relations has passed a bill toughening sanctions on North Korea.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee will target the regime’s money laundering and its human rights infringements by blacklisting officials believed to be involved in human rights violations and asking the U.S. Department of the Treasury a money-laundering concern.

The bill would also resume restrictions on export licenses loosened in 2008 when the North was removed from the U.S. state sponsors of terror list.

The bill, which comes months after the UN Commission of Inquiry Report on Human Rights in