GENERAL BUREAU OF ATOMIC ENERGY

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 6 authorities: UN Security Council, OFAC, Australia DFAT, Japan MOF, Switzerland SECO, Taiwan International Trade Administration. Includes a UN Security Council listing, which binds every member state. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
• Debarment & exclusion— Checked, nothing found16 sources read, none holding a record for this company.
• Ownership & controlRecords foundControlled by a designated company: MINISTRY OF ATOMIC ENERGY INDUSTRY.
• People— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• Identity & registration— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.
• JurisdictionRecords foundNorth Korea is named on a jurisdiction designation list — European Commission, EU list of high-risk third countries (AMLD Art. 9), section III: “High-risk third countries which present ongoing and substantial money-laundering and terrorist-financing risks, having repeatedly failed to address the identified deficiencies and which are identified by FATF Public Statement.” That is a call for action, the strongest category these lists carry. The designation is of the jurisdiction, not of this record.
• Court records— Not assessedNothing has been read for this company on this dimension.

• Taiwan International Trade AdministrationActive

  Strategic high-tech commodities entity list

  Designation date not published by this authority · Taiwan SHTC export entity list

• Switzerland SECOActive

  North Korea

  Designated 5 Jan 2024 · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

• Japan MOFActive

  asset-freeze

  Designation date not published by this authority · Japan MOF Sanctions List

• Australia DFATActive

  1718 (DPRK)

  Designated 20 Feb 2026 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

• OFACActive

  NPWMD

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

• UN Security CouncilActive

  DPRK

  Designated 16 Jul 2009 · UN Security Council Consolidated List

No people recorded against this company. Officer and ownership data comes from national business registers, and the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists — so a sanctioned company frequently has none.

Legal name

GENERAL BUREAU OF ATOMIC ENERGY

Also known as

General Bureau of Atomic Energy (GBAE) · General Department of Atomic Energy (GDAE) · GENERAL BUREAU OF ATOMIC ENERGY (GBAE) · GBAE +5

Jurisdiction

KP

Address

Haeudong, Pyongchen District Pyongyang Korea, North

First recorded here

21 Jul 2026

1. Sanction lifted: US CSL (ISN) — E.O. 13382

   5 Oct 2026 · US Consolidated Screening List

2. Subsidiary recorded: KOREA KUMSAN TRADING CORPORATION

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Sanction listed: OFAC — NPWMD

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Sanction listed: US CSL (ISN) — E.O. 13382

   10 Sept 2026 · US Consolidated Screening List

5. Alias recorded: General Bureau of Atomic Energy

   10 Sept 2026 · US Consolidated Screening List

6. Sanction listed: Australia DFAT — 1718 (DPRK)

   10 Sept 2026 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

No ownership test is on file for this company. The test reads who holds a company's shares from its shareholder register, and it is run each day for companies with a number in Estonia's, Latvia's or Poland's register. For a company anywhere else, no register read here states its shareholders, so the test cannot be run.

No people recorded against this company. Officer data comes from national business registers, and a company outside those jurisdictions will have none here even when its officers are publicly known elsewhere.

4 companies, 3 recorded links, up to two steps from this record. Open the full graph ›

No other company on file shares Haeudong, Pyongchen District Pyongyang Korea, North.

Each reading is kept with the methodology version that produced it. A later reading is not a correction of an earlier one — it is a different question asked of more sources.

• Fact

  general bureau of atomic energy

  Legal name

  Evidence

  11598

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 5 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 4 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  general bureau of atomic energy (gbae)

  Legal name

  Evidence

  690758

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UN Security Council Consolidated List and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  KP

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  11598

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 2 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — NPWMD

  Designation

  Evidence

  11598

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  US CSL (ISN) — E.O. 13382

  Designation

  Evidence

  ISN-e0f7515fcba13c6f855940459d0cb3262d093a13efb9bed2979ad856

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  US Consolidated Screening List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Australia DFAT — 1718 (DPRK)

  Designation

  Evidence

  1124

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Taiwan International Trade Administration — Strategic high-tech commodities entity list

  Designation

  Evidence

  915a7c004ac34146b47b3e7e

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UN Security Council — DPRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  690758

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UN Security Council Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Switzerland SECO — North Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  3511

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Japan MOF — asset-freeze

  Designation

  Evidence

  014-000007

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Japan MOF Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

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TRUE

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FALSE

A source explicitly denies it. Rare, and never inferred from silence.

UNKNOWN

Checked, nothing found. Rendered as an em dash, never as 0 or "no".

NOT_ASSESSED

Never checked — nothing was read here. Excluded from coverage, and not counted as clean.

16 records on this company — identifiers, aliases, officers, listings, figures — each carry the source that wrote them and are shown beside their own entries. The fields above are different: the entities table has no source column, so what is shown is every source whose stored payload contains the value verbatim. That is strong evidence, not proof of which write landed it, and where nothing contains the value the row says so instead of naming a plausible source.