KOREA KWANGSON BANKING CORPORATION

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 5 authorities: Japan MOF, UN Security Council, France gels des avoirs, New Zealand, 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 2 designated companies: Foreign Trade Bank (FTB), ILSIM INTERNATIONAL BANK.
• 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.

• New ZealandActive

  Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

  Designated 30 Oct 2025 · New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

• France gels des avoirsActive

  (UE) 2017/1509 du 30/08/2017 (ONU Corée du Nord - RCSNU 1718 (2006) et R (UE) 2017/1509)

  Designation date not published by this authority · France Registre national des gels

• France gels des avoirsActive

  Décision du comité de sanction des Nations unies du 02/03/2016 (ONU Corée du Nord - RCSNU 1718 (2006) et R (UE) 2017/1509)

  Designation date not published by this authority · France Registre national des gels

• 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

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

KOREA KWANGSON BANKING CORPORATION

Also known as

KOREA KWANGSON BANKING CORPORATION (KKBC) · KOREA KWANGSON BANKING CORPORATION · KKBC · Korea Kwangson Banking Corporation +3

Jurisdiction

KP

Legal form

CORPORATION — form not confirmed for this country

First recorded here

21 Jul 2026

1. Sanction listed: France gels des avoirs — (UE) 2017/1509 du 30/08/2017 (ONU Corée du Nord - RCSNU 1718 (2006) et R (UE) 2017/1509)

   28 Sept 2026 · France Registre national des gels

2. Sanction listed: France gels des avoirs — Décision du comité de sanction des Nations unies du 02/03/2016 (ONU Corée du Nord - RCSNU 1718 (2006) et R (UE) 2017/1509)

   28 Sept 2026 · France Registre national des gels

3. Sanction lifted: New Zealand — Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

   8 Sept 2026 · New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

4. Sanction listed: New Zealand — Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

   8 Sept 2026 · New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

5. Alias recorded: DPRK Border Trade Settlement Bank

   8 Sept 2026 · New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

6. Alias recorded: Border Trade Settlement Bank

   8 Sept 2026 · New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

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.

3 companies, 2 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

  korea kwangson banking corporation

  Legal name

  Evidence

  2384

  Read 28 Sept 2026 · asserted by 5 records

  Source

  France Registre national des gels and 3 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  korea kwangson banking corporation (kkbc)

  Legal name

  Evidence

  6908518

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  UN Security Council Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  KP

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  6908518

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  UN Security Council Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  France gels des avoirs — (UE) 2017/1509 du 30/08/2017 (ONU Corée du Nord - RCSNU 1718 (2006) et R (UE) 2017/1509)

  Designation

  Evidence

  2384

  Read 28 Sept 2026

  Source

  France Registre national des gels

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  France gels des avoirs — Décision du comité de sanction des Nations unies du 02/03/2016 (ONU Corée du Nord - RCSNU 1718 (2006) et R (UE) 2017/1509)

  Designation

  Evidence

  2384

  Read 28 Sept 2026

  Source

  France Registre national des gels

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UN Security Council — DPRK

  Designation

  Evidence

  6908518

  Read 10 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UN Security Council Consolidated List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  New Zealand — Asset freeze · Aircraft ban · Ship ban · Service prohibition · Dealing with securities

  Designation

  Evidence

  nz-Ent-490

  Read 8 Sept 2026 · in force from 30 Oct 2025 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  New Zealand Russia Sanctions Register

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Switzerland SECO — North Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  33918

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  Japan MOF — asset-freeze

  Designation

  Evidence

  016-000006

  Read 17 Aug 2026 · asserted by 3 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.

15 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.