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RI PYONG CHUL

PersonBorn 1948Last read from source 19 Oct 2026

(1) Former Secretary of the Worker’s Party and Member of the Political Bureau (2) Former Alternate Member of the Political Bureau of the Workers’ Party of Korea and First Vice Director of the Munitions Industry Department (3) Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Central Military Commission

Sanctioned · Switzerland SECO, Australia DFAT, UK OFSI, UN Security Council
Listed by 4 authoritiesKP
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Sanctions
Own listings
0
Companies
Roles recorded
0
Designated
Of those companies
1
Countries
Connections
1
Identifiers
Documents
5
Sources
7 names on file
Listed in their own right4

Named directly by Australia DFAT, Switzerland SECO, UK OFSI, UN Security Council.

Director of a company that is listed—

No company role is recorded for this person by any register read.

Sanctions4 active

  • Switzerland SECOActive

    North Korea

    Designation date not published by this authority · Switzerland SECO Sanctions List

  • Australia DFATActive

    1718 (DPRK)

    Designation date not published by this authority · Australia DFAT Consolidated List

  • UK OFSIActive

    Democratic People's Republic of Korea

    Designation date not published by this authority · UK Sanctions List (FCDO)

  • UN Security CouncilActive

    DPRK

    Designation date not published by this authority · UN Security Council Consolidated 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
RI PYONG CHUL
Also known as
Ri Pyo’ng-ch’o’l · Ri Pyong Chol · Ri PYONG CHOL · Ri Pyo'ng-ch'o'l
Date of birth
1948
Nationality
KP
Position
(1) Former Secretary of the Worker’s Party and Member of the Political Bureau (2) Former Alternate Member of the Political Bureau of the Workers’ Party of Korea and First Vice Director of the Munitions Industry Department (3) Vice Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) Central Military Commission
First recorded here
8 Aug 2026

Exposure

High risk2 of 5 components assessed — no composite shown, because how much was read is itself unknown here
Sanctions and debarments94

Sanctioned by 4 authorities: UN Security Council, Australia DFAT, UK OFSI, Switzerland SECO. Includes a UN Security Council listing, which binds every member state. Confirmed present in a source snapshot within the last 90 days.

Jurisdiction90

North 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.

Not scored

Company associations

Not scored. No company role is recorded for this person, which is an absence of records rather than a finding.

Evidence coverage

Not scored. The evidence ledger records which sources were read for a COMPANY; it holds no per-person rows, so there is no coverage figure to price in here. The sources behind this record are listed under Evidence.

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.

Recent activity

  1. 19 Oct 2026Last read from source