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Active- Programme
- PRK
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Source
- EU Consolidated Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026
리명수
PersonBorn 1937Last read from source 19 Oct 2026
Vice Marshall of the Korean People’s Army, first vice commander of the Korean People’s Army Supreme Command. Until 2018, member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea and Chief of Staff of the People’s Armed Forces. Chief military representative at a state funeral in May 2022, but described as veteran in an April 2022 parade.
Sanctioned · EU
Listed by 1 authority
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Own listings
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Companies
Roles recorded
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Designated
Of those companies
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Countries
Connections
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Identifiers
Documents
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Sources
2 names on file
Listed in their own right1
Named directly by EU.
Director of a company that is listed—
No company role is recorded for this person by any register read.
Sanctions1 active
- EUActive
PRK
Designation date not published by this authority · EU Consolidated Sanctions List
Companies & roles
No company role is recorded for this person. Roles come from national business registers, and a sanctioned individual will usually have none here — the registers this system reads cover a different set of countries from the sanctions lists.
On the record
- Name
- 리명수
- Also known as
- RI Myong Su
- Date of birth
- 1937
- Place of birth
- Myongchon, North Hamgyong, KOREA, DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF
- Position
- Vice Marshall of the Korean People’s Army, first vice commander of the Korean People’s Army Supreme Command. Until 2018, member of the Central Military Commission of the Workers’ Party of Korea and Chief of Staff of the People’s Armed Forces. Chief military representative at a state funeral in May 2022, but described as veteran in an April 2022 parade.
- First recorded here
- 28 Aug 2026
Exposure
Medium risk1 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments60
Sanctioned by 1 authority: EU. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.
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Company associations
Not scored. No company role is recorded for this person, which is an absence of records rather than a finding.
Jurisdiction
Not scored. No country is recorded for this record.
Evidence coverage
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Adverse media
Not scored. Media coverage is not linked to individuals in this system at all, only to companies, and even there it covers a small fraction of the records.
Band drawn from the components that could be measured, methodology v5. The unscored ones above are gaps in what was read, not findings of nothing. Not a compliance determination — check the underlying listings before acting on anything here.
Active listings1
Companies & roles0
No company role is recorded for this person.
Identifiers0
No identity document is recorded. Business registers publish names and roles, not passport or national-ID numbers — those come only from sanctions lists.
Names on file2
리명수EU Consolidated Sanctions ListRI Myong SuEU Consolidated Sanctions List
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Where this record comes from
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Recent activity
- 19 Oct 2026Last read from source