[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 50 (Tuesday, March 15, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13872-13873]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-05847]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 9481]
Additional Designation of North Korean Entities Pursuant to
Executive Order 13382
AGENCY: Department of State.
ACTION: Designation of the Ministry of Atomic Energy Industry, the
Academy of National Defense Science, the National Aerospace Development
Administration, Choe Chun Sik, and Kang Mun Kil Pursuant to E.O. 13382,
and Additional Identifying Information Concerning the Designated Entity
Namchongang Trading Corporation.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority in section 1(ii) of Executive Order
13382, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators
and Their Supporters'', the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control
and International Security, in consultation with the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Attorney General, has determined that the North Korean
entities Ministry of Atomic Energy Industry, Academy of National
Defense Science, the National Aerospace Development Administration as
well as the individuals Choe Chun Sik and Kang Mun Kil, have engaged,
or attempted to engage, in activities or transactions that have
materially contributed to, or pose a risk of materially contributing
to, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of
delivery (including missiles capable of delivering such weapons),
including any efforts to manufacture, acquire, possess, develop,
transport, transfer or use such items, by any person or foreign country
of proliferation concern. The Under Secretary of State for Arms Control
and International Security, in consultation with the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Attorney General, has also determined that the North
Korean Namhung Trading Corporation is an alias of Namchongang Trading
Corporation, which is designated pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
DATES: Effective Dates: The designation of and additional identifying
information for the entities and individuals identified in this notice
pursuant to Executive Order 13382 is effective upon publication of this
notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Office of
Counterproliferation Initiatives, Bureau of International Security and
Nonproliferation, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, tel.: 202-
647-5193.
Background
On June 28, 2005, the President, invoking the authority, inter
alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C.
1701-1706) (``IEEPA''), issued Executive Order 13382 (70 FR 38567, July
1, 2005) (the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time
on June 30, 2005. In the Order the President took additional steps with
respect to the national emergency described and declared in
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Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994, regarding the proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all
property and interests in property that are in the United States, or
that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter
come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1)
The persons listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign person
determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other relevant
agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or
transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of
materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass
destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of
delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture,
acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such items, by
any person or foreign country of proliferation concern; (3) any person
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant agencies,
to have provided, or attempted to provide, financial, material,
technological or other support for, or goods or services in support of,
any activity or transaction described in clause (2) above or any person
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the
Order; and (4) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury,
in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and
other relevant agencies, to be owned or controlled by, or acting or
purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any
person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to
the Order.
Information on the additional designees is as follows:
Name: National Aerospace Development Administration
AKA: NADA
Location: North Korea
Name: Academy of National Defense Science
Location: Pyongyang, DPRK
Name: Ministry of Atomic Energy Industry
AKA: MAEI
Location: Haeun-2-dong, Pyongchon District, Pyongyang, DPRK
Name: Choe Chun Sik
AKA: Ch'oe Ch'un Sik
Identifiers: DOB: 12 October 1954; Nationality: DPRK
Name: Kang Mun Kil
AKA: Jiang Wen-ji
Passport: PS 472330208; Passport Date of Expiration: 4 July
2017; Nationality: DPRK
Name: Namchongang Trading Corporation
AKA: Namhung Trading Corporation
AKA: Namhung
Location: Chilgol, Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang, DPRK
Dated: March 1, 2016.
Rose Gottemoeller,
Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Department
of State.
[FR Doc. 2016-05847 Filed 3-14-16; 8:45 am]
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