Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Type of sectoral sanctions
Vessels
Measures
• Sec. 2. (b) No vessel in which a foreign person has an interest that has called at a port in North Korea within the previous 180 days, and no vessel in which a foreign person has an interest that has engaged in a ship- to-ship transfer with such a vessel within the previous 180 days, may call at a port in the United States.
Additional Sanctions
Program information
Authority
US
Program
Executive Order 13810 of September 20, 2017 Imposing Additional Sanctions With Respect to North Korea
Regime
OFAC country specific / UN
Target State
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Official Information
The United States imposed a near total economic embargo on the DPRK in 1950 after the DPRK attacked the South, sparking the Korean war. Over the following years, some U.S. sanctions were eased, but others were imposed. Executive Order 13810 was issued on September 21, 2017, in the wake of the DPRK’s September 2017 nuclear test and multiple intercon...
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