[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 209 (Tuesday, October 31, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50478-50479]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-23573]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice: 10180]


Additional Designation of North Korean Entities Pursuant to E.O. 
13382

AGENCY: Department of State.

ACTION: Additional identifying information concerning the designated 
entities Namchongang Trading Corporation and Korea Tangun Trading 
Corporation, pursuant to E.O. 13382.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority in section 1(a)(ii) of Executive 
Order 13382, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction 
Proliferators and Their Supporters'', the Secretary of State, in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney 
General, has determined that the Korea Kuryonggang Trading Corporation 
is an alias of Korea Tangun Trading Corporation, and that the Korea 
Taeryonggang Trading Corporation is an alias of Namchongang Trading 
Corporation, both of which have previously been designated pursuant to 
Executive Order 13382.

DATES: The designation of and additional identifying information for 
the entities identified in this notice pursuant to Executive Order 
13382 is effective upon publication of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Philip Foley, Director, Office of 
Counterproliferation Initiatives, Bureau of International Security and 
Nonproliferation, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, tel.: 202-
647-5193.
    Background: On June 28, 2005, the President, invoking the 
authority, inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers 
Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706) (``IEEPA''), issued Executive Order 13382 (70 
FR 38567, July 1, 2005) (the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 a.m. 
eastern daylight time on June 30, 2005. In the Order the President took 
additional steps with respect to the

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national emergency described and declared in Executive Order 12938 of 
November 14, 1994, regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction and the means of delivering them.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, or 
that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter 
come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1) 
The persons listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign person 
determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other relevant 
agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or 
transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of 
materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of 
delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture, 
acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such items, by 
any person or foreign country of proliferation concern; (3) any person 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant agencies, 
to have provided, or attempted to provide, financial, material, 
technological or other support for, or goods or services in support of, 
any activity or transaction described in clause (2) above or any person 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the 
Order; and (4) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and 
other relevant agencies, to be owned or controlled by, or acting or 
purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any 
person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
the Order.
    Information on the additional designees is as follows:

Name: Namchongang Trading Corporation

<bullet> AKA: Korea Taeryonggang Trading Corporation
<bullet> AKA: Namhung Trading Corporation
<bullet> Location: Jungsin-Dong, Sosong District, Pyongyang, Democratic 
People's Republic of Korea

Name: Korea Tangun Trading Corporation

<bullet> AKA: Korea Kuryonggang Trading Corporation
<bullet> Location: Chilgol, Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang, Democratic 
People's Republic of Korea

Rex W. Tillerson,
Secretary of State.
[FR Doc. 2017-23573 Filed 10-30-17; 8:45 am]
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