The Panel of Experts assigned to the UN Security Council’s DPRK Sanctions Committee has published its Final Report (2018), which offers (inter alia) a series of recommendations for designation.

In respect of North Korea continuing to have “access to the international financial system”, the following individuals and entities have been recommended for designation: Han Hun Il (Edward Han), Ri Ho Nam, Ri Ik (Li Ik), Wang Zhi Guo, Pak In Su, Kim Chang-Hyok and Kim Su-Gwang, as well as ‘International Global System’ and ‘International Golden Services’. The Panel has also reiterated its recommendations in previous reports for the designation of ‘Pan Systems’.

The Report also recommends the ‘Nuclear Weapons Institute’ for designation, on the basis that it is engaged in the nuclear-related programme of the DPRK (it is said to be led by designated person Ri Hong-Sop, and a subordinate company to the designated entity, Munitions Industry Department).

Furthermore, the Panel has recommended that the following 3 individuals should be designated for having violated paragraphs 11 and 14 of UNSC Resolution 2375 (2017) (namely, engaging in the illicit transfer to the DPRK of refined petroleum products by way of ship-to-ship transfers): Shih-Hsien Chen, Boby Julian Akbari (captain of the designated vessel: ‘Billions No. 18’ – see previous blog here) and Wang Songchang (captain of the vessel: ‘Lighthouse Winmore’, which was seized by South Korean authorities earlier this year – see previous blog here).