OFFICE 39

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 7 authorities: Japan MOF, Australia DFAT, UN Security Council, EU, UK OFSI, OFAC, Switzerland SECO. 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 foundOwns or controls 3 designated companies: KOREA DAESONG BANK, KOREA DAESONG GENERAL TRADING CORPORATION, KOREAN NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
• 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.

• Switzerland SECOActive

  North Korea

  Designated 4 Mar 2016 · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

• Japan MOFActive

  asset-freeze

  Designation date not published by this authority · Japan MOF 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 2 Mar 2016 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

• EUActive

  PRK

  Designated 2 Mar 2016 · EU Consolidated Sanctions 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

OFFICE 39

Also known as

OFFICE 39 · Office #39 · Office No. 39 · Bureau 39 +28

Jurisdiction

KP

Address

Changwang Street, Pyongyang

First recorded here

21 Jul 2026

1. Sanction listed: OFAC — DPRK

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

2. Alias recorded: DIVISION 39

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Alias recorded: THIRD FLOOR

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Alias recorded: CENTRAL COMMITTEE BUREAU 39

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

5. Alias recorded: BUREAU 39

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

6. Alias recorded: OFFICE NO. 39

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

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 Changwang Street, Pyongyang.

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

  office 39

  Legal name

  Evidence

  12453

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 9 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 7 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  KP

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  12209

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 2 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Democratic People's Republic of Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  12453

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — DPRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  12209

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  EU — PRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  6861

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  EU Consolidated Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Australia DFAT — 1718 (DPRK)

  Designation

  Evidence

  3172

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UN Security Council — DPRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  6908524

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UN Security Council Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Switzerland SECO — North Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  33948

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Japan MOF — asset-freeze

  Designation

  Evidence

  016-000008

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 3 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.

40 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.