UK updates DPRK trade sanctions guidance
5 November 2025
The UK has updated its North Korea trade sanctions guidance. Guidance on the specific grounds for granting trade licences for sanctioned goods has been updated to say:
- A licence may be granted for the export, making available, supply, or delivery of luxury goods for the purposes of news gathering for use by independent news media organisations, provided that there are reasonable grounds to determine that they will be safely removed from the DPRK when no longer required and will not be hired, exchanged, sold or otherwise disposed of within the DPRK.
The guidance relates to prohibition of the export, supply and delivery, and sale of certain goods to the DPRK under regulations 45-47 of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. See our UK DPRK and Guidance pages for more information.
