Presidential Documents

819 

Federal Register 

Vol. 80, No. 3 

Tuesday, January 6, 2015 

Title 3— 

The President 

Executive Order 13687 of January 2, 2015 

Imposing Additional Sanctions With Respect To North Korea 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency 

Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), section 212(f) of the Immigration and 

Nationality Act of 1952 (8 U.S.C. 1182(f)), and section 301 of title 3, United 

States Code; and in view of United Nations Security Council Resolution 

(UNSCR) 1718 of October 14, 2006, UNSCR 1874 of June 12, 2009, UNSCR 

2087 of January 22, 2013, and UNSCR 2094 of March 7, 2013, 

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, find that 

the provocative, destabilizing, and repressive actions and policies of the 

Government of North Korea, including its destructive, coercive cyber-related 

actions during November and December 2014, actions in violation of UNSCRs 

1718, 1874, 2087, and 2094, and commission of serious human rights abuses, 

constitute a continuing threat to the national security, foreign policy, and 

economy of the United States, and hereby expand the scope of the national 

emergency declared in Executive Order 13466 of June 26, 2008, expanded 

in scope in Executive Order 13551 of August 30, 2010, and relied upon 

for additional steps in Executive Order 13570 of April 18, 2011. To address 

this threat and to take further steps with respect to this national emergency, 

I hereby order: 

Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United 

States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter 

come within the possession or control of any United States person of the 

following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, 

withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the Secretary 

of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State: 

(i) to be an agency, instrumentality, or controlled entity of the Government 

of North Korea or the Workers’ Party of Korea; 

(ii) to be an official of the Government of North Korea; 

(iii) to be an official of the Workers’ Party of Korea; 

(iv) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, 

or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, 

the Government of North Korea or any person whose property and interests 

in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or 

(v) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act 

for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, the Government of North Korea 

or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order. 

(b) The prohibitions in this order apply except to the extent provided 

by statutes, or in regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be 

issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered 

into or any license or permit granted prior to the effective date of this 

order. 

Sec. 2. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type of 

articles specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, 

to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property 

are blocked pursuant to section 1 of this order would seriously impair 

my ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 


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13466, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of 

this order. 

Sec. 3. The prohibitions in this order include but are not limited to: 

(a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services 

by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in 

property are blocked pursuant to this order; and 

(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services 

from any such person. 

Sec. 4. I hereby find that the unrestricted immigrant and nonimmigrant 

entry into the United States of aliens determined to meet one or more 

of the criteria in section 1(a) of this order would be detrimental to the 

interests of the United States, and I hereby suspend entry into the United 

States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of such persons. Such persons 

shall be treated as persons covered by section 1 of Proclamation 8693 of 

July 24, 2011 (Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations 

Security Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers 

Act Sanctions). 

Sec. 5. (a) Any transaction that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading 

or avoiding, causes a violation of, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited. 

(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set forth 

in this order is prohibited. 

Sec. 6. For the purposes of this order: 

(a) the term ‘‘person’’ means an individual or entity; 

(b) the term ‘‘entity’’ means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture, 

corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; 

(c) the term ‘‘United States person’’ means any United States citizen, 

permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United 

States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign 

branches), or any person in the United States; and 

(d) the term ‘‘Government of North Korea’’ means the Government of 

the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and its agencies, instrumentalities, 

and controlled entities. 

Sec. 7. For those persons whose property and interests in property are 

blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional presence 

in the United States, I find that because of the ability to transfer funds 

or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures 

to be taken pursuant to this order would render those measures ineffectual. 

I therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in addressing 

the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13466, there need be 

no prior notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 

1 of this order. 

Sec. 8. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary 

of State, is hereby authorized to take such actions, including the promulgation 

of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President 

by IEEPA, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. 

The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to 

other officers and agencies of the United States Government consistent with 

applicable law. All agencies of the United States Government are hereby 

directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to carry 

out the provisions of this order. 


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Sec. 9. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or 

benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any 

party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its 

officers, employees, or agents, or any other person. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

January 2, 2015. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00058 

Filed 1–5–15; 11:15 am] 

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