U.S. Senator Sam Brownback is planning to offer a new piece of legislation aimed at pressuring the State Department to put North Korea back on its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

That’s according to the recent online edition of the foreign affairs magazine, Foreign Policy.

The report said the legislation aims to debunk the State Department's official explanation as to why the administration can't relist North Korea, pointing out that Pyongyang didn't live up to the bargain it struck with the Bush administration, which delisted the country in 2008.

The U.S. State Department has been reluctant to heed calls to put the North back on the terrorism blacklist, saying that in order to be designated as a state sponsor of terrorism, the secretary of state must determine that the North’s government has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.

The new legislation is a repeat effort by Brownback to influence North Korea policy. He introduced a bill in July that would have re-imposed sanctions and put North Korea back on the list.