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South Korea unilateral strategic-items export controls on North Korea

Seoul's own strategic-items export-control administration targeting North Korea's weapons programs, issued under Korea's Special Notice on Trade for Fulfilling International Peace and Security Obligations and the 2016 Nuclear and Missile Surveillance Items framework. Distinct from us-dprk-weapons-revenue-sanctions (OFAC E.O. 13687/13551 designations against DPRK revenue networks) and un-security-council-sanctions-regimes (the multilateral UNSC instrument): this theme tracks South Korea's own domestic legal architecture and periodic watch-list additions, parallel to but independent of the US and UN tracks.

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Each dot = one action; vertical position is severity (1-5), horizontal position is announced_date. Color coded by issuer (US blue, CN red, EU amber, GB darker blue, JP pink, KR emerald, NL orange, ID lime, others gray). Dashed arcs connect explicit responds_to pairs within this theme. Hover any element for the action title + date.

What it captures

Korea-issued (MOFA/MOTIE) export-control designations that add North-Korea-customized watch-list items to Korea's strategic-items regime, typically announced in direct response to a North Korean missile or nuclear provocation.

2024-10-31 — 15-item solid-fuel missile production-chain watch-list

(propellant chemicals, structural fiber materials, guidance components), issued the same day as North Korea's long-range ballistic missile launch.

What to watch

Whether MOTIE formalizes these MOFA-announced watch-list items into a

numbered strategic-items amendment (cf. the 36th amendment, 2025-02-28-south-korea-motie-36th-strategic-items-amendment).

Further country-customized watch-list rounds following future North

Korean provocations.

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31 Oct 2024KR · MOFAExport controlsev 3RBI 2

South Korea imposes export control on 15 solid-fuel missile items to North Korea

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