KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY

• SanctionsRecords foundSanctioned by 3 authorities: Taiwan International Trade Administration, OFAC, UK OFSI. 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 found1 designated individual recorded in connection with this company: Thae Chol RI.
• 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

• UK OFSIActive

  Democratic People's Republic of Korea

  Designated 31 Dec 2020 · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

• OFACActive

  DPRK3

  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

KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY

Also known as

KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY · Korean People's Army

Jurisdiction

KP

First recorded here

17 Aug 2026

1. Sanction listed: OFAC — DPRK3

   10 Sept 2026 · OFAC SDN

2. Sanction listed: UK OFSI — Democratic People's Republic of Korea

   10 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

3. Alias recorded: Korean People's Army

   10 Sept 2026 · UK OFSI Consolidated List

4. Sanctioned individual connected by OFAC: Thae Chol RI

   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: KOREAN PEOPLE'S ARMY

   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 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

  korean people s army

  Legal name

  Evidence

  13548

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 4 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 3 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  KP

  Jurisdiction

  Evidence

  13548

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 4 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 3 other sources

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  UK OFSI — Democratic People's Republic of Korea

  Designation

  Evidence

  13548

  Read 13 Sept 2026 · asserted by 2 records

  Source

  UK Sanctions List (FCDO) and 1 other source

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

  OFAC — DPRK3

  Designation

  Evidence

  22284

  Read 10 Sept 2026

  Source

  OFAC SDN

  Primary source ↗

• Fact

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

  Designation

  Evidence

  c1226f094be7db8c8c1d9fd4

  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.

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.