Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006)

Arms and related materiel embargo

All Member States are required to prevent the direct or indirect supply, sale, or transfer to the DPRK, through their territories or by their nationals, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, and whether or not originating in their territories, of all arms and related materiel, including small arms and light weapons and their related materiel, a ban on related financial transactions, technical training including hosting of trainers, advisors, or other officials for the purpose of military-, paramilitary-, or police related training, services or assistance related to manufacture, maintenance or use, and with respect to the shipment of items to or from the DPRK for repair, servicing, refurbishing, testing, reverse-engineering and marketing.

All Member States are required to apply a “catch-all” clause on the supply, sale or transfer of any item if it determines that such an item could directly contribute to the development of the DPRK’s operational capabilities of its armed forces, or to exports that support/enhance the capabilities of armed forces of another Member State outside the DPRK.

Set out in paragraph 8 (a) and (b) of resolution 2270 (2016).

Non-proliferation

Proliferation networks

All Member States are required to expel DPRK diplomats, government representatives, other DPRK nationals acting in a governmental or representative office capacity, and foreign nationals that are working on behalf or at the direction of a designated person and/or entity or of a person and/or entity assisting in sanctions evasions or violating the resolutions.

All Member States are required to close the representative offices of designated persons and entities, as well as on any persons or entities acting on behalf of such designated persons or entities, as well as prohibit them from participating in joint ventures and any other business arrangements.

Set out in paragraph 13 and paragraph 14 of resolution 2270 (2016).

All Member States are required to reduce the number of staff at DPRK diplomatic missions and consular posts and to restrict the entry into or transit through their territory of DPRK government members and officials, members of the DPRK armed forces, or members/officials which are associated with prohibited programmes or activities, as determined by the Member State.

All Member States are required to limit the number of bank accounts (in their territory) to one per DPRK diplomatic mission and consular post, and one per accredited DPRK diplomat and consular officer.

All Member States are required to prohibit the DPRK from using real property (owned or leased) in their territory for non-diplomatic or consular activities’ purposes.

Interdiction and transportation

All Member States are required to inspect cargo destined to or originating from the DPRK or brokered by the DPRK that is within or transiting their territories. This includes items that are being transported on DPRK flagged aircraft or vessels, transported by rail and by road, as well as the personal luggage and checked baggage of individuals entering into or departing from the DPRK that may be used to transport items the supply, sale or transfer of which is prohibited.

All Member States are prohibited from leasing, chartering their flagged vessels, aircraft or providing crew services to the DPRK, designated persons and entities, or any persons or entities whom the Member State determines have assisted in sanctions evasions or in violation of the resolutions.

Set out in paragraph 8 of resolution 2321 (2016)

All Member States are required to de-register any vessel that is owned or operated by the DPRK and not to register any such vessel that is de-registered by another Member State.

All Member States are required to de-register any vessels they have reasonable grounds to believe were involved in activities or the transport of items prohibited by the relevant resolutions. Member States should not register any such vessel that has been de-registered by another Member State.

None.

Set out in paragraph 12 of resolution 2397 (2017)

All Member States are required to prohibit their nationals, entities and persons within their territory from registering vessels in the DPRK, to obtain authorization for a vessel to use the DPRK flag or to charter vessels flagged by the DPRK.

All Member States are prohibited from owning, leasing, operating, chartering, or providing vessel classification, certification or associated service and insurance or re-insurance, to any DPRK-flagged, owned, controlled or operated vessel.

Set out in paragraph 9 of resolution 2321 (2016)

Set out in paragraph 22 of resolution 2321 (2016).

All Member States are required to deny permission to any aircraft to take off from, land in or overfly their territory if they have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the aircraft contained prohibited items.

The Committee may designate vessels for which it has information indicating they are, or have been, related to activities prohibited by the relevant resolutions.

All Member States are required to prohibit the entry into their ports of such designated vessels.

Member States are called upon to inspect vessels with the consent of the flag State, on the high seas, if they have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the cargo of such vessels contains items the supply, sale, transfer or export of which is prohibited by the relevant resolutions.

All States are called upon to cooperate with inspections and, if the flag State does not consent to inspection on the high seas, decides that the flag State shall direct the vessel to proceed to an appropriate and convenient port for the required inspection by the local authorities, and decides further that, if a flag State neither consents to inspection on the high seas nor directs the vessel to proceed to an appropriate and convenient port for the required inspection, or if the vessel refuses to comply with flag State direction to permit inspection on the high seas or to proceed to such a port, then the Committee shall consider designating the vessel for the measures imposed in paragraph 8 (d) of resolution 1718 (2006) and paragraph 12 of resolution 2321 (2016) and the flag State shall immediately deregister that vessel provided that such designation has been made by the Committee.

All Member States are required, when it does not receive the cooperation of a flag State of a vessel, to submit promptly to the Committee a report containing relevant details.

All Member States should improve mutual information-sharing on suspected attempts by the DPRK to supply, sell, transfer or procure illicit cargo, with support and facilitation by the 1718 Committee and the Panel of Experts.

All Member States are required to notify the Committee of relevant identifying information as well as measures taken to carry out appropriate actions as authorized by the relevant provisions regarding vessels in their territory or on the high seas designated as subject to the assets freeze, the port entry ban or other relevant measures.

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Provision of bunkering services

All Member States are required to prohibit the provision of bunkering services, such as fuel, supplies, other servicing of vessels to DPRK vessels if reasonable grounds and information exist that they are carrying prohibited items.

Set out in paragraph 17 of resolution 1874 (2009).

All Member States are required to freeze the assets, funds, and economic resources of the entities of the Government of the DPRK and Korean Workers’ Party, that the State determines are associated with the prohibited activities, including designated persons and entities, as well as any persons or entities acting on behalf of or at their direction, or those owned or controlled by them. These assets include tangible, intangible, movable, immovable, actual or potential, which may be used to obtain funds, goods or services, such as vessels, including maritime vessels.

Designated vessels are subject to assets freeze by Member States.

Financial measures

All Member States are required to prevent the provision of financial services, including bulk cash and gold, the opening of banking subsidiaries, the provision of public financial support, new commitments for grants, and financial assistance or concessional loans that could contribute to the DPRK’s prohibited programmes/activities, or to the evasion of sanctions.

Companies performing financial services commensurate with those provided by banks are considered financial institutions for the purposes of implementing relevant provision of the resolutions.

Set out in paragraph 19 of resolution 1874 (2009) and paragraph 33 of resolution 2270 (2016).

All Member States are prohibited from opening any new branches, subsidiaries and representative offices of DPRK banks; must close existing branches, subsidiaries and representative offices; and terminate any joint ventures, ownership interests or correspondent banking relationships with DPRK banks in their territory.

Set out in paragraph 33 of resolution 2270 (2016).

All Member States are prohibited from opening any new representative offices, subsidiaries or bank accounts in the DPRK. All Member States must close existing offices, subsidiaries and banking accounts in the DPRK within 90 days.

All Member States are required to prohibit, by their nationals or in their territories, the opening, maintenance and operation of all joint ventures or cooperative entities, new or existing, with DPRK entities or individuals, whether or not acting for or on behalf of the government of the DPRK.

All Member States States are required to close any such existing joint venture or cooperative entity within 120 days of 11 September 2017 unless approved by the Committee on a case-by-case basis, and to close any such existing joint venture or cooperative entity within 120 days after the Committee has denied a request for approval.

The DPRK is prohibited from supplying, selling, transferring, of coal, iron and iron ore, gold, titanium ore, vanadium ore, copper, nickel, silver, zinc and rare earth minerals, lead and lead ore, food and agricultural products, machinery, electrical equipment, earth and stone including magnesite and magnesia, wood and vessels.

All Member States are prohibited from procuring such material from the DPRK. by their nationals, or by using their flag vessels or aircraft, whether or not originating in the territory of the DPRK.

Set out in paragraph 5 of resolution 2397 (2017)

Set out in paragraph 4 of resolution 2397 (2017)

The DPRK is prohibited from supplying, selling or transferring, seafood (including fish, crustaceans, mollusks, and other aquatic invertebrates in all forms).

The DPRK is prohibited from selling or transferring fishing rights.

All Member States are prohibited from procuring such items from the DPRK by their nationals, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, whether or not originating in the territory of the DPRK.

Set out in paragraph 9 of resolution 2371 (2017)

The DPRK shall not supply, sell or transfer, textiles (including but not limited to fabrics and partially or completed apparel products).

All Member States are required to prohibit the procurement of such items from the DPRK by their nationals, or using their flag vessels or aircraft, whether or not originating in the territory of the DPRK.

Set out in paragraph 16 of resolution 2375 (2017)

Ban on DPRK workers abroad

All Member States are prohibited from providing work authorizations for DPRK nationals in their jurisdiction in connection with admission to their territories.

All Member States are required to repatriate to the DPRK all DPRK nationals earning income in their jurisdiction and all DPRK government safety oversight attachés within 24 months from 22 December 2017. Member States are required to submit a midterm report after 15 months from 22 December 2017 and a final report after 27 months from 22 December 2017 to the Committee of all DPRK nationals that were repatriated based on this provision.

Set out in paragraph 17 of resolution 2375 (2017)

Set out in paragraph 8 of resolution 2397 (2017)

All Member States are prohibited from selling or supplying of aviation fuel, jet fuel and rocket fuel to the DPRK.

All Member States should exercise vigilance to ensure that fuel provided to DPRK-flagged civil passenger aircraft is no more than necessary (for the relevant flight) and includes a standard margin for safety of flight.

The DPRK is prohibited from supplying, selling, transferring, of statues.

All Member States are prohibited from procuring statues from the DPRK by their nationals, or by using their flag vessels or aircraft, whether or not originating in the territory of the DPRK.

Persons or entities engaging in or providing support for, including through other illicit means, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s nuclear-related, other weapons of mass destruction-related and ballistic missile related programmes, or by persons or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction. Family members of such persons may also be designated for the travel ban.

Paragraph 8 (d) and (e) of resolution 1718 (2006)

Expanded to include entities and individuals that have assisted the evasion of sanctions or in violating the provisions of resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009).

Paragraph 12 of resolution 2087 (2013)

Expanded to include individuals and entities that have contributed to (i) the DPRK’s prohibited programmes, (ii) activities prohibited by the resolutions or (iii) the evasion of sanctions.

Paragraph 27 of resolution 2094 (2013)