NAMCHONGANG TRADING CORPORATION

KPe.004
NAMCHONGANG TRADING CORPORATION
Date on which the narrative summary became available on the Committee's website: 
29 October 2014
Reason for listing: 

Namchongang Trading Corporation was listed on 16 July 2009 “as being engaged in or providing support for, including through other illicit means, DPRK’s nuclear-related, other weapons of mass destruction-related and ballistic missile-related programmes.”

Additional information: 

“Namchongang is a DPRK trading company subordinate to the General Bureau of Atomic Energy (GBAE). Namchongang has been involved in the procurement of Japanese origin vacuum pumps that were identified at a DPRK nuclear facility, as well as nuclear-related procurement associated with a German individual. It has further been involved in the purchase of aluminum tubes and other equipment specifically suitable for a uranium enrichment program from the late 1990s. Its representative is a former diplomat who served as DPRK’s representative for the IAEA inspection of the Yongbyon nuclear facilities in 2007. Namchongang's proliferation activities are of grave concern given the DPRK’s past proliferation activities.”