The Security Council Committee pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) (hereafter “the Committee”) oversees the sanctions measures imposed by the Security Council.

Sanction measures

Measure

Description

Exemptions to the measure

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, even if not covered by the arms embargo, 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

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 items relevant to nuclear, ballistic missiles and other weapons of mass destruction-related programmes (lists of the items prohibited can be found here).

All Member States are further required to implement a binding dual-use “catch-all” provision to apply the above measures on any item if the State determines that it could contribute to the DPRK’s nuclear or ballistic missile programmes, other weapons of mass destruction programmes or other activities prohibited by the resolutions.

None

 

 

 

 

 

None

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).

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 also includes items that are being transported on DPRK flagged aircraft or vessels.

None

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 19  of resolution 2270 (2016)

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

Set out in paragraph 19  of resolution 2270 (2016)

All Member States are required to prohibit their nationals, entities and persons within their territory from registering vessels in the DPRK or to obtain authorization for a vessel to use the DPRK flag. All Member States are prohibited from owning, leasing, operating, or providing vessel classification, certification or associated service and insurance, to any DPRK-flagged vessel.

Set out in paragraph 20  of resolution 2270 (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.

Set out in paragraph 21  of resolution 2270 (2016)
All Member States are required to deny port entry if they have information that provides reasonable grounds that the vessel is owned, controlled, directly or indirectly, by a designated individual and/or entity. Set out in paragraph 22  of resolution 2270 (2016)

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).

Assets freeze

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.

Vessels controlled or operated by OMM are subject to assets freeze by Member States.

Set out in paragraph 9 (a), (b) and (c) of resolution 1718 (2006) and paragraph 32 of resolution 2270 (2016).
Travel ban All Member States are required to prevent the entry into or transit through their territories of designated individuals; individuals acting on behalf of or at the direction of designated individuals; any individual whom a State determines is assisting in the evasion of sanctions, violating the provisions of the resolutions, working on behalf/at the direction of designated individuals; and individuals traveling for the purposes of carrying out activities related to the shipment of items for repair, servicing, refurbishing, testing, reverse-engineering, and marketing. Set out in paragraph 10 of resolution 1718 (2006) and paragraph 10 of resolution 2094 (2013)

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.

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 reasonable grounds that it could contribute to DPRK’s prohibited programmes.

Set out in paragraph 35 of resolution 2270 (2016).
All Member States are required to prohibit public and private financial support from within their territories or by persons/entities within their jurisdiction for trade with the DPRK, including granting of export credits, guarantees or insurance to their nationals, or entities involved in such trade. None
Specialized teaching and training All Member States are required to exercise vigilance and prevent specialized teaching or training of DPRK nationals within their territories or by their nationals of disciplines which could contribute to the DPRK’s proliferation sensitive nuclear activities and development of nuclear weapon delivery systems, including teaching of advanced physics, advanced computer simulation and related computer sciences, geospatial navigation, nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineering and related disciplines. None
Coal and Minerals ban

The DPRK is prohibited from supplying, selling, transferring, directly or indirectly, from its territory or by its national or using its flag vessels or aircraft, of coal, iron and iron ore, gold, titanium ore, vanadium ore, and rare earth minerals.

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 29 of resolution 2270 (2016) – only applicable to the coal ban.
Fuel ban All Member States are prohibited from selling or supplying of aviation fuel, jet fuel and rocket fuel to the DPRK. Set out in paragraph 31 of resolution 2270 (2016).
Luxury goods ban 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 luxury goods (including those items listed in Annex IV of resolution 2094 (2013) and Annex IV of resolution 2270 (2016)). None

Work and mandate of the Committee

The Committee comprises all 15 members of the Security Council and makes its decisions by consensus. The current Chair of the Committee, for the period ending 31 December 2016, is His Excellency Mr. Román Oyarzun Marchesi (Spain). The two Vice-Chairs for 2016 are Egypt and Ukraine. The Committee prepares annual reports of its activities. The Committee has Guidelines for the conduct of its work. Formal and informal meetings of the Committee are announced in the Journal of the United Nations. The work of the Committee is supported by the Panel of Experts established pursuant to resolution 1874 (2009).

The Committee is mandated to:

  • take appropriate action on information regarding alleged violations of sanctions measures
  • seek from all States information regarding the actions taken by them to implement effectively the sanctions measures and whatever further information it may consider useful
  • consider and decide upon notifications and requests for exemptions from the sanctions measures
  • designate individuals and entities who meet the listing criteria as contained in the relevant resolutions
  • examine the Member States’ reports submitted pursuant to relevant resolutions
  • examine the reports presented by the Panel of Experts
  • report every 90 days to the Security Council
  • conduct outreach activities

Background information

The Committee was established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) on 14 October 2006 to oversee the relevant sanctions measures relating to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Additional functions were entrusted to the Committee in resolutions 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), 2094 (2013), and 2270 (2016).

Further information on measures

Arms Embargo

The Security Council first imposed an arms embargo relating to the DPRK on 14 October 2006 with the adoption of resolution 1718 (2006). In resolution 2270 (2016), adopted on 2 March 2016, the Security Council extended the measures in paragraph 8 (b) of resolution 1718 (2006) to arms and related materiel, including small arms and light weapons, financial transactions, technical training, advice, services or assistance related to the provision, manufacture or use of such arms or materiel, as well as any item, except food or medicine, if a State determines that such item could directly contribute to the development of the DPRK’s operational capabilities of its armed forces, or to exports that support or enhance the operational capabilities of the armed forces of another Member State.  

Targeted Sanctions

Under resolution 1718 (2006), persons or entities engaging in or providing support for the DPRK’s prohibited programmes or by persons or entities acting on their behalf or at their direction could be designated, including their family members of such persons, for the travel ban. This was expanded under resolution 2087 (2013) including the criteria of individuals and entities which have assisted the evasion of sanctions or in violating the provisions of resolutions 1718 and 1874.

In 2009 and 2012, the Committee designated a total of 5 individuals and 11 entities (S/2009/222, S/2009/364 and S/2012/287). Under resolution 2087 (2013), an additional 4 individuals and 6 entities were designated and again, under resolution 2094 (2013), 3 new individuals and 2 new entities were added. On 28 July 2014, the Committee designated an additional entity. Under resolution 2270 (2016), 16 new individuals and 12 entities were designated. Currently, there are a total of 32 entities and 28 individuals on the 1718 Sanctions List.

Summary of listing criteria

Criteria

Relevant Resolution

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)