MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENCE

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 6 authorities: Japan MOF, UN Security Council, Australia DFAT, Taiwan International Trade Administration, Switzerland SECO, UK OFSI. 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 & control— Not scoredNot scored. No ownership, control or officer records are on file for this company, which is an absence of evidence rather than an absence of risk.
• 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 22 Dec 2017 · 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

• UK OFSIActive

  Democratic People's Republic of Korea

  Designated 22 Dec 2017 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

• UN Security CouncilActive

  DPRK

  Designated 22 Dec 2017 · UN Security Council Consolidated List

No corporate ownership records on file for this company. Ownership is recorded only where a register or a designating authority publishes it, and coverage is thin for companies outside the jurisdictions with open beneficial-ownership registers.

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

MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENCE

Also known as

MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENCE · MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE · MINISTRY OF DEFENCE · MINISTRY OF DEFENSE +8

Jurisdiction

KP

First recorded here

21 Jul 2026

1. Alias recorded: MINISTRY OF THE PEOPLES ARMED FORCES (MPAF)

   13 Sept 2026 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

2. Sanction listed: UK OFSI — Democratic People's Republic of Korea

   10 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

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

   10 Sept 2026 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

4. Alias recorded: Ministry of the People's Armed Forces (MPAF)

   10 Sept 2026 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

5. Sanction listed: Taiwan International Trade Administration — Strategic high-tech commodities entity list

   10 Sept 2026 · Taiwan SHTC export entity list

6. Sanction listed: UN Security Council — DPRK

   22 Jul 2026 · UN Security Council 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 corporate ownership records on file. This is an absence of evidence, not evidence of a simple structure — see the risk breakdown, where the ownership component is left unscored for exactly this reason.

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.

Nothing to draw: this company has no recorded links to another company on file.

No address has been read for this company, so this was never checked — which is not the same as finding nothing.

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

  ministry of national defence

  Legal name

  Evidence

  13575

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 7 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 6 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  KP

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  13575

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 4 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 3 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Democratic People's Republic of Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  13575

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Australia DFAT — 1718 (DPRK)

  Designation

  Evidence

  3446

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

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

  Designation

  Evidence

  83eec205ed46c3eada59da29

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UN Security Council — DPRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  6908657

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UN Security Council Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Switzerland SECO — North Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  37799

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Japan MOF — asset-freeze

  Designation

  Evidence

  014-000054

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Japan MOF Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

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TRUE

A source states it. Rendered as a fact, with the source attached.

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.

18 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.