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Sung-Mu Hong

Politican · Sanctioned entity

Sung-Mu Hong is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Hong Sung-mu · Sun Mu Hong · Sun Mu Hung · Sung Mu HONG · Sung Mu Hong · 8 more...				[sources]
Other name	HONG Sung Mu · Sun Mu Hong · Sun Mu Hung · Sung Mu Hong · Sung Mu Hung · 3 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1941-12-31 · 1942-01-01				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	North Korea				[sources]
Country	North Korea				[sources]
First name	Seung-mu · Sun · Sung · Sung Mu · Sung-Mu · 1 more...				[sources]
Last name	HONG · Hong · Hung				[sources]
Second name	Mu				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16179925				[sources]
Position	Deputy Director, Munitions Industry Department · Supreme People’s Assembly (member, 2014-) · Vice Director of the Munitions Industry Department (MID) · Vice-directeur du Département de l’industrie des munitions (MID)				[sources]
Source link	gels-avoirs.dgtresor.gouv.fr				[sources]
Created at	2016				[sources]
Modified on	2022-04-15				[sources]
Last changed	2024-05-09	Last checked	2024-05-19	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Vice-directeur du Département de l’industrie des munitions (MID). Le MID — désigné par le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies le 2 mars 2016 — est impliqué dans des aspects essentiels du programme de missiles de la RPDC. Le MID est chargé de superviser la mise au point des missiles balistiques de la RPDC, notamment les programmes de recherche et développement. À ce titre, Hong est responsable des programmes de la RPDC en rapport avec les armes nucléaires, les missiles balistiques ou d’autres armes de destruction massive. Il a assisté au lancement du missile balistique intercontinental Hwasong-15 le 28 novembre 2017. Il a participé, en juillet 2020, à une réunion de la Commission militaire centrale du Parti des travailleurs de Corée consacrée à la “dissuasion de la guerre”, euphémisme utilisé pour faire référence au programme nucléaire de la RPDC. Réélu au comité central du Parti en janvier 2021. En mars 2023, il a été photographié en compagnie de Kim Jong Un en train d’inspecter ce qui était présenté comme étant des têtes nucléaires prêtes à être montées sur des missiles balistiques.

— French Freezing of Assets, 2023-11-15

North Korean nuclear weapons scientist

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Supreme People's Assembly	2014-03-09	-

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Federal Public Service Finance	PRK	2023-11-15	-
Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation · UK	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	2020	-
Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Recovery	(UE) 2017/1509 du 30/08/2017- (UE Corée du Nord - Règlement (UE) 2017/1509) · (UE) 2020/1129 du 30/07/2020 (UE Corée du Nord - Règlement (UE) 2017/1509) · (UE) 2021/1300 du 05/08/2021 (UE Corée du Nord - Règlement (UE) 2017/1509) · (UE) 2022/1331 du 28/07/2022 (ONU Corée du Nord - RCSNU 1718 (2006) et R (UE) 2017/1509) · 1 more...	-	-
Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU	-	-	-
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) · UK	The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019	2020-12-31	-
European External Action Service	PRK	2023-11-15	-

Data sources

Every Politician59,031

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

MySociety (UK Citizens Online Democracy) · non-official source

EU Financial Sanctions Files (FSF)6,054

As part of the Common Foreign Security Policy the European Union publishes a sanctions list that is implemented by all member states.

European Union · European External Action Service

UK HMT/OFSI Consolidated List of Targets5,924

The United Kingom's consolidated international sanctions list.

United Kingdom · Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation

French Freezing of Assets6,267

The register lists all persons, entities and vessels subject to asset freezing measures in force on French territory, pursuant to national, European and international (UN) provisions.

France · Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Recovery

UK FCDO Sanctions List4,428

UK sanctions collated by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

United Kingdom · Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)

Belgian Financial Sanctions6,321

Belgium extends the European FSF sanctions list on the basis of a national terrorist list, issued by the National Security Council

Belgium · Federal Public Service Finance

EU Consolidated Travel Bans3,894

Consolidated information about individuals who have been banned from traveling to the European Union, released as part of the EU Sanctions Map.

European Union · Estonian Presidency of the Council of the EU

External databases

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Wikidata225,570

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: evpo-afd22450-2686-4534-a92a-45952598ebce · gb-fcdo-dpr0011 · fr-ga-2461 · gb-hmt-13358 · eu-fsf-eu-3787-3 · NK-QxhRwceb7xrXYYw32VGUgJ · eu-tb-logical-108627

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