North Korea Company & Beneficial Ownership Directory
Company register search for 3 North Korea companies, plus shareholder, officer and beneficial ownership records sourced directly from official government registries.
1 company indexed for North Korea so far, sourced directly from official government registries. Read how UBO verification works here: North Korea beneficial ownership guide.
Top Companies in North Korea
Live from the register. Every row opens the full record — officers, shareholders and resolved group structure.
Data Coverage
Record counts by data layer for North Korea, as of the last reconciliation.
Analysis
What this data actually tells you about North Korea
North Korea publishes essentially no independently verifiable economic or business statistics; nearly every figure cited about the country originates from South Korean government estimates, UN agencies, defector-source networks, satellite-imagery analysis, or North Korean state media, and this profile notes the origin of each claim rather than presenting estimates as measured fact. Kim Jong Un remains supreme leader and General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, re-elected to that role at the party’s 9th Congress in February 2026, which formally endorsed simultaneously expanding North Korea’s nuclear and conventional military forces. North Korea has deployed an estimated 11,000 troops to Russia’s Kursk Oblast in support of Russia’s war against Ukraine as of early 2026, a deployment North Korea itself acknowledged in April 2025; South Korean intelligence has estimated North Korean losses in the region at roughly 6,000 killed or injured.
South Korea’s central bank, the standard source for North Korean GDP estimates since North Korea does not publish its own, estimated real GDP growth of 3.5% in 2025, the third consecutive year of growth above 3%, attributing this partly to expanded economic cooperation with Russia and increased trade with China; this methodology, based on indirect physical-output modelling rather than observed transactions, has been publicly criticised by North Korea specialists as conveying more precision than the underlying data supports. Population is estimated at roughly 26.6 million, a United Nations projection based on North Korea’s last actual census in 2008, not a current count. Since the 1990s famine, informal markets known as jangmadang have operated alongside the state-planned economy; the government tacitly tolerated these markets for roughly the first decade of Kim Jong Un’s rule before shifting toward tighter suppression from around 2020 onward.
China-North Korea trade rose an estimated 25-26% in 2025 toward near pre-pandemic levels, accounting for an estimated 98% of North Korea’s external trade, with new cross-border infrastructure including a long-delayed bridge to Dandong, China, and, in September 2026, the first-ever road bridge between North Korea and Russia. There has been no independent United Nations sanctions-monitoring body since Russia vetoed renewal of the UN Panel of Experts’ mandate in 2024, a gap partly filled by an 11-country Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team; North Korea-linked hackers stole an estimated $2.02 billion in cryptocurrency in 2025 alone, according to blockchain-analytics firm Chainalysis, and North Korea dispatches an estimated tens of thousands of workers abroad under state control despite a UN ban on the practice, generating several hundred million dollars a year according to South Korean intelligence and independent analysts.
Severe flooding along the Yalu River in 2024 and again in 2025 caused significant damage; South Korean government estimates put casualties as high as 1,500 dead or missing in 2024, while North Korean state media reported only property damage with no death toll, an asymmetry that recurs across North Korean disaster reporting generally. No official North Korean business registry or economic census exists publicly, and no structure-of-business dataset is used in this profile as a result; third-party commercial databases of North Korea-linked companies exist but are compiled by private researchers and journalists rather than any government source, and are not treated as authoritative here.
Who uses North Korea ownership data
The three checks this page's data is most often run for.
KYB onboarding
Verifying a North Korea counterparty means confirming the beneficial owner behind the entity and evidencing where that answer came from, not just pulling the registered name.
AML and sanctions screening
Sanctions exposure often sits above the operating company, in a holding layer registered elsewhere. Screening the local entity alone will not surface it; screening the resolved ownership chain will.
Supplier and credit risk
Filed accounts cover a limited share of the register in most jurisdictions, so group membership is often a better solvency signal than a standalone balance sheet.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many companies does Zavia have on record for North Korea?
Zavia holds 3 company records for North Korea, of which 3 (100%) are currently active on the register.
Can I access North Korea's company data through an API?
Yes. Zavia's API connects directly to official government ownership registries across 195 countries and territories, including North Korea, so company registration, shareholder, UBO, officer, and group-structure records can be queried programmatically instead of browsed one page at a time.
Where can I read more about how UBO verification works in North Korea?
Zavia's North Korea beneficial ownership guide covers the register, the UBO threshold, and how to verify a company's ownership chain in more depth than this directory page.