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The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday forwarded legislation to the Senate targeting North Korea's access to currency and foreign exchange services in response to the country's latest test of a nuclear weapon. The North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act, which passed the House 418-2 less than a week after North Korean officials claimed for the first time to have detonated a hydrogen bomb, would require the U.S. Treasury Department to determine if the nation qualifies as a jurisdiction of "primary money laundering concern" under Sec. 311 of the Patriot Act. The department previously used the designation against North Korea in...