Concentrating on Illicit DPRK Weapons Gross sales to Burma and a DPRK Monetary Facilitator

Today, the United States sanctioned six targets for his or her roles in producing income for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), together with by procuring materiel from DPRK for Burma’s army regime, which has indiscriminately attacked civilian infrastructure since its 2021 coup.  This motion goals to disrupt illicit networks that facilitate these assaults and concurrently reducing off funding for the DPRK illegal weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile packages. The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated one entity and 5 people for his or her roles in facilitating arms trafficking and producing income for the DPRK regime.  

The designations goal the Burma-based Royal Shune Lei Company Limited and its key personnel.  Those personnel embrace Kyaw Thu Myo Myint and Tin Myo Aung, who facilitated weapons offers for the Burmese Air Force with Kim Yong Ju, the Beijing-based deputy consultant of the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation (KOMID).  Also often known as the 221 General Bureau, KOMID serves because the DPRK’s major arms seller and exporter of ballistic missile-related gear.  The designations additionally sanction Aung Ko Ko Oo who’s a director of Royal Shune Lei.  Furthermore, Nam Chol Ung, a DPRK nationwide who has laundered international foreign money earnings by an in depth community of companies throughout Southeast Asia, is being designated for being a consultant of the DPRK’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB).

These actions underscore the United States’ dedication to disrupting networks that help the DPRK’s destabilizing actions and to selling accountability for individuals who allow Burma’s army regime.  We welcome collaboration with our worldwide companions, together with by the G7+ DPRK Sanctions Contact Group, to make sure coordinated sanctions efforts in opposition to these entities and people.

The Department of the Treasury actions have been taken pursuant to Executive Orders 13687, 13551, and 14014.  For extra info on immediately’s motion, see Treasury’s Press Releases.