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Illustrated portrait of North Korea; geographic and cultural interpretation, not regulator premises.
← The regulatory atlasCOUNTRY PERSPECTIVE / North Korea

State-directed market without an independent supervisor

North KoreaNo independent supervisor

Insurance supervision in North Korea.

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01 / The institution

Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor)

The DPRK Insurance Law gives operating permits to a central insurance guidance institution that publishes nothing. No official DPRK website is reachable, so this profile links the UN Security Council committee whose sanctions list designates the state insurer.

How it is structured

State-directed market without an independent supervisor

Institutional source ↗

What it oversees

The Insurance Law of the DPRK (1995, amended 2015) requires an operating permit from the central insurance guidance institution.

Mandate source ↗

The legal foundations

Mandate, written into law.

Establishing legislation and the rules governing insurance may be different instruments.

02 / Market signals

The numbers, with context.

Figures retain the reporting period and accounting basis of their source. They are snapshots, not live indicators or directly comparable country rankings.

Insurance penetration. A current premium-to-GDP ratio has not been independently verified for this profile. No estimate is substituted.

03 / The report notebook

A dated view of the market.

What we noted in the regulator’s publications. Each entry separates the period covered, publication date when known, and our review date.

04 / Official contacts

Reach the institution.

Public institutional channels, checked 26 September 2026.

Research trail

Sources you can follow.

Independent editorial research by Insurers Global. Source dates do not certify that a law includes every subsequent amendment.

  1. UN Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) ↗Checked
  2. US Department of the Treasury — press release jl0677 ↗Checked

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