Daedong Credit Bank (DCB; ) is a North Korean bank, established in 1995, and based in the country's capital,
Pyongyang
Pyongyang () is the Capital city, capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is sometimes labeled as the "Capital of the Revolution" (). Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. Accordi ...
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DCB has been on the US Treasury sanctions list since June 2013, for "its role in supporting Pyongyang's weapons of mass destruction program".
Also sanctioned were DCB Financial Limited, and its representative,
Kim Chol-sam, and Son Mun San, the external affairs bureau chief of North Korea's Bureau of Atomic Energy.
See also
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North Korea's illicit activities
The alleged illicit activities of the North Korean state include manufacture and sale of illegal drugs, the manufacture and sale of counterfeit consumer goods, human trafficking, arms trafficking, wildlife trafficking, counterfeiting currency ( ...
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Banks of North Korea
1995 establishments in North Korea
Banks established in 1995
North Korean entities subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions
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