RECONNAISSANCE GENERAL BUREAU

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 7 authorities: Japan MOF, Switzerland SECO, Australia DFAT, Taiwan International Trade Administration, OFAC, EU, UN Security Council. 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: Chosun Expo.
• 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

• 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 4 Mar 2016 · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

• Japan MOFActive

  asset-freeze

  Designated 11 Mar 2016 · Japan MOF Sanctions List

• Japan MOFActive

  asset-freeze

  Designated 11 Mar 2016 · Japan MOF Sanctions List

• Australia DFATActive

  1718 (DPRK)

  Designated 20 Feb 2026 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

Legal name

RECONNAISSANCE GENERAL BUREAU

Also known as

RECONNAISSANCE GENERAL BUREAU · Chongch'al Ch'ongguk · KPA Unit 586 · RGB +4

Jurisdiction

KP

Address

Hyongjesan-Guyok Pyongyang Korea, North; Nungrado Pyongyang Korea, North

First recorded here

21 Jul 2026

1. Parent company recorded: Chosun Expo

   10 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

2. Sanction listed: OFAC — DPRK2

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Sanction listed: OFAC — DPRK

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Sanction listed: EU — PRK

   10 Sept 2026 · EU Consolidated Sanctions List

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

   10 Sept 2026 · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

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

   10 Sept 2026 · Taiwan SHTC export entity 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.

None recorded with a stated ownership stake or control method.

2 companies, 1 recorded links, up to two steps from this record. Open the full graph ›

No other company on file shares Hyongjesan-Guyok Pyongyang Korea, North; Nungrado 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

  reconnaissance general bureau

  Legal name

  Evidence

  12210

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 9 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 6 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  KP

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  12210

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 4 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 2 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — DPRK2

  Designation

  Evidence

  12210

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — DPRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  12210

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  EU — PRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  6857

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  EU Consolidated Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Australia DFAT — 1718 (DPRK)

  Designation

  Evidence

  3173

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

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

  Designation

  Evidence

  569f8426d6072be4d80aacfc

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UN Security Council — DPRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  6908526

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UN Security Council Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Switzerland SECO — North Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  33959

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Japan MOF — asset-freeze

  Designation

  Evidence

  016-000009

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 3 records

  Source

  Japan MOF Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

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FALSE

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UNKNOWN

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NOT_ASSESSED

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