{
  "dataset": "Insurers Global — Insurance Companies Directory (Africa, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America and North America)",
  "version": "2026-09-08+af188cb54143",
  "verified": "2026-09-08",
  "licence": "CC BY 4.0 — attribute KAFS North America (Kenbright Actuarial and Financial Services North America), https://insurers.global",
  "data": {
    "id": 2566,
    "slug": "north-korea-pukguksong-insurance-company",
    "name": "Pukguksong Insurance Company",
    "continent": "asia-pacific",
    "country": "north-korea",
    "region": "east-asia",
    "class": "general-non-life",
    "classCode": "G",
    "group": "Parent not named in register",
    "groupSlug": null,
    "groupKey": null,
    "groupPlaceholder": true,
    "groupType": "state-owned-parastatal",
    "groupTypeCode": "SO",
    "regulator": "Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor)",
    "regulatorAcronym": "Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor)",
    "currency": "KPW",
    "sourceBasis": "Insurance Business Asia, \"North Korea launches three general insurers\" (19 Feb 2019), https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/asia/news/breaking-news/north-korea-launches-three-general-insurers-159130.aspx; Korea Times, \"NK sets up reinsurance firm\" (Jan 2019), https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/biz/2019/01/488_261417.html; retrieved 2026-09-26",
    "notes": "Also Polestar Insurance Company. Non-life insurer (fire, technology/engineering, agriculture), established August 2016 per Naenara as reported by Korea Times. State ownership presumed, not stated. Not individually sanctions-listed as far as checked.",
    "verification": "partial",
    "lei": null,
    "nationalId": null,
    "registeredSince": null,
    "city": null,
    "website": null,
    "classBasis": null,
    "groupBasis": null,
    "predecessors": [],
    "iaig": null,
    "countryName": "North Korea",
    "countryIso2": "KP",
    "url": "https://insurers.global/insurers/north-korea-pukguksong-insurance-company/",
    "countryUrl": "https://insurers.global/countries/north-korea/",
    "groupUrl": null,
    "iaigUrl": null,
    "profile": null,
    "groupListings": null,
    "financials": null,
    "identity": null,
    "footprint": null,
    "regulatorDetail": {
      "name": "Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor)",
      "acronym": "Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor)",
      "website": null,
      "regime": "Insurance Law of the DPRK (1995, amended 2015); operating permits from the central insurance guidance institution; state-directed market",
      "registerSource": "US Treasury press release jl0677, 2 Dec 2016 (https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl0677); OpenSanctions entity page for KNIC (https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/NK-ZVAffn8ced83sWQMcTguHB/); Korea Times \"NK sets up reinsurance firm\" (Jan 2019, citing Naenara) (https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/biz/2019/01/488_261417.html); Insurance Business Asia \"North Korea launches three general insurers\" (19 Feb 2019, citing Yonhap and the Korea Institute of Finance); all retrieved 2026-09-26. No official register exists; no count stated."
    },
    "siblings": []
  }
}