KOREA KWANGSON BANKING CORP

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 2 authorities: OFAC, Taiwan International Trade Administration. 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 found3 designated individuals recorded in connection with this company: Hyon Sop SIM, Chol Ryong CHOE, Chol Song JO.
• 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

• OFACActive

  NPWMD

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

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.

Legal name

KOREA KWANGSON BANKING CORP

Also known as

KOREA KWANGSON BANKING CORP · KKBC · BTSB · BORDER TRADE SETTLEMENT BANK +1

Jurisdiction

KP

Legal form

CORP — form not confirmed for this country

Address

Jungson-dong, Sungri Street, Central District Pyongyang Korea, North

First recorded here

17 Aug 2026

1. Sanction listed: OFAC — NPWMD

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

2. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Chol Ryong CHOE

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

3. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Hyon Sop SIM

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

4. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Chol Song JO

   28 Aug 2026 · OFAC SDN

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

   17 Aug 2026 · Taiwan SHTC export entity list

6. Alias recorded: DPRK BORDER TRADE SETTLEMENT BANK

   17 Aug 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.

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.

None recorded with a stated ownership stake or control method.

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

No other company on file shares Jungson-dong, Sungri Street, Central 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

  korea kwangson banking

  Legal name

  Evidence

  11581

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  KP

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  11581

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — NPWMD

  Designation

  Evidence

  11581

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

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

  Designation

  Evidence

  ce6050f89eb1fbc3bb556f99

  Read 17 Aug 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity 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.

10 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.