Se Un KIM

Korea, North

1978-03-25

Nampho, North Korea

Male

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

390120007, Passport

Business

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company and three associated individuals—Kim Se Un, Jo Kyong Hun, and Myong Chol Min—for their involvement in the evasion of U.S. and United Nations (UN) sanctions and efforts to generate revenue clandestinely for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) government, including through fraudulent information technology (IT) worker schemes. This action to counter the DPRK’s wide-ranging revenue generation schemes is part of a collaborative effort with the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and State; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Homeland Security Investigations. Kim Se Un is a North Korean representative of Sobaeksu that has also used various subordinate companies to support Sobaeksu’s revenue generation activities, including by operating a company based out of Vietnam and hiring additional North Korean IT workers to facilitate IT development outside of the DPRK. OFAC is designating Kim Se Un pursuant to E.O. 13382 for having provided, or attempted to provide, financial, material, technological, or other support for, or goods or services in support of, Sobaeksu, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 13382. The State Department, under the Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program, authorized a reward offer up to $3 million for information leading to Kim Se Un’s arrest and/or conviction.

US

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0205

2025-07-24

US

Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 544

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Non-Proliferation

Blocking Property

On April 13, 2009, OFAC issued the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 544 (74 FR 16771, April 13, 2009) (the “Regulations”), to implement Executive Order (E.O.) 13382 of June 28, 2005, “Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters” (70 FR 38567, July 1, 2005)

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