DEPARTMENT 53 OF THE MINISTRY OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMED FORCES

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 2 authorities: Taiwan International Trade Administration, OFAC. 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 1 designated company: LIAONING CHINA TRADE INDUSTRY CO., LTD..
• 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

  DPRK2

  Designation date not published by this authority · OFAC SDN

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

DEPARTMENT 53 OF THE MINISTRY OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMED FORCES

Also known as

BUREAU 53 · DEPARTMENT 53 OF THE MINISTRY OF THE PEOPLE'S ARMED FORCES · DEPARTMENT 53 · KOREA PONGNAESAN TRADING CORPORATION

Jurisdiction

KP

First recorded here

17 Aug 2026

1. Subsidiary recorded: LIAONING CHINA TRADE INDUSTRY CO., LTD.

   11 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

2. Sanction listed: OFAC — DPRK2

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

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

   17 Aug 2026 · Taiwan SHTC export entity list

4. Alias recorded: KOREA PONGNAESAN TRADING CORPORATION

   17 Aug 2026 · Taiwan SHTC export entity list

5. Alias recorded: BUREAU 53

   17 Aug 2026 · Taiwan SHTC export entity list

6. Alias recorded: DEPARTMENT 53

   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 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.

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

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

  department 53 of the ministry of the people s armed forces

  Legal name

  Evidence

  52262

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  OFAC SDN and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  KP

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  52262

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — DPRK2

  Designation

  Evidence

  52262

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

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

  Designation

  Evidence

  2e7761f6725e96975e5c7145

  Read 17 Aug 2026

  Source

  Taiwan SHTC export entity list

  Primary source ↗

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TRUE

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FALSE

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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.

6 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.