22 U.S.C. § 9214 (FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE)
§ 9214. Designation of persons
(a) Mandatory designations
Except as provided in section 9228 of this title, the President shall designate under this subsection any person that the President determines—
(1) knowingly, directly or indirectly, imports, exports, or reexports to, into, or from North Korea any goods, services, or technology controlled for export by the United States because of the use of such goods, services, or technology for weapons of mass destruction or delivery systems for such weapons and materially contributes to the use, development, production, possession, or acquisition by any person of a nuclear, radiological, chemical, or biological weapon or any device or system designed in whole or in part to deliver such a weapon;
(2) knowingly, directly or indirectly, provides training, advice, or other services or assistance, or engages in significant financial transactions, relating to the manufacture, maintenance, or use of any such weapon, device, or system to be imported, exported, or reexported to, into, or from North Korea;
(3) knowingly, directly or indirectly, imports, exports, or reexports luxury goods to or into North Korea;
(4) knowingly engages in, is responsible for, or facilitates censorship by the Government of North Korea;
(5) knowingly engages in, is responsible for, or facilitates serious human rights abuses by the Government of North Korea;
(6) knowingly, directly or indirectly, engages in money laundering, the counterfeiting of goods or currency, bulk cash smuggling, or narcotics trafficking that supports the Government of North Korea or any senior official or person acting for or on behalf of that Government;
(7) knowingly engages in significant activities undermining cybersecurity through the use of computer networks or systems against foreign persons, governments, or other entities on behalf of the Government of North Korea;
(8) knowingly, directly or indirectly, sells, supplies, or transfers to or from the Government of North Korea or any person acting for or on behalf of that Government, a significant amount of precious metal, graphite, raw or semi-finished metals or aluminum, steel, coal, or software, for use by or in industrial processes directly related to weapons of mass destruction and delivery systems for such weapons, other proliferation activities, the Korean Workers’ Party, armed forces, internal security, or intelligence activities, or the operation and maintenance of political prison camps or forced labor camps, including outside of North Korea;
(9) knowingly, directly or indirectly, imports, exports, or reexports to, into, or from North Korea any arms or related materiel; or
(10) knowingly attempts to engage in any of the conduct described in paragraphs (1) through (9).
(b) Additional discretionary designations
(1) Prohibited conduct described
Except as provided in section 9228 of this title, the President may designate under this subsection any person that the President determines—
(A) knowingly engages in, contributes to, assists, sponsors, or provides financial, material or technological support for, or goods and services in support of, any person designated pursuant to an applicable United Nations Security Council resolution;
(B) knowingly contributed to—
(i) the bribery of an official of the Government of North Korea or any person acting for on behalf of that official;
(ii) the misappropriation, theft, or embezzlement of public funds by, or for the benefit of, an official of the Government of North Korea or any person acting for or on behalf of that official; or
(iii) the use of any proceeds of any activity described in clause (i) or (ii); or
(C) knowingly and materially assisted, sponsored, or provided significant financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, the activities described in subparagraph (A) or (B).
(2) Effect of designation
With respect to any person designated under this subsection, the President may—
(A) apply the sanctions described in section 9224, 9225(c), or 9226 of this title to the person to the same extent and in the same manner as if the person were designated under subsection (a);
(B) apply any applicable special measures described in section 5318A of title 31;
(C) prohibit any transactions in foreign exchange—
(i) that are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; and
(ii) in which such person has any interest; and
(D) prohibit any transfers of credit or payments between financial institutions or by, through, or to any financial institution, to the extent that such transfers or payments—
(i) are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States; and
(ii) involve any interest of such person.
(c) Asset blocking
The President shall exercise all of the powers granted to the President under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to the extent necessary to block and prohibit all transactions in property and interests in property of a designated person, the Government of North Korea, or the Workers’ Party of Korea, if such property and interests in property are in the United States, come within the United States, or are or come within the possession or control of a United States person.
(d) Application to subsidiaries and agents
The designation of a person under subsection (a) or (b) and the blocking of property and interests in property under subsection (c) shall apply with respect to a person who is determined to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to have acted for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this section.
(e) Transaction licensing
The President shall deny or revoke any license for any transaction that the President determines to lack sufficient financial controls to ensure that such transaction will not facilitate any activity described in subsection (a) or (b).
(f) Penalties
The penalties provided for in subsections (b) and (c) of section 206 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1705) shall apply to any person who violates, attempts to violate, conspires to violate, or causes a violation of any prohibition of this section, or an order or regulation prescribed under this section, to the same extent that such penalties apply to a person that commits an unlawful act described in section 206(a) of such Act (50 U.S.C. 1705(a)).
(Pub. L. 114–122, title I, § 104, Feb. 18, 2016, 130 Stat. 99.)
heading: References in Text
text: The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, referred to in subsec. (c), is title II of Pub. L. 95–223, Dec. 28, 1977, 91 Stat. 1626, which is classified generally to chapter 35 (§ 1701 et seq.) of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 1701 of Title 50 and Tables.