Like Iran and Myanmar, North Korea is on the FATF's list of countries at high risk for money laundering and terrorist financing.

According to the intergovernmental group Gafi, the Kim Jong-un regime did not remedy the shortcomings of its system to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. This poses a serious threat to the smooth functioning of the international financial system. Pyongyang and Tehran have been identified as the countries at the highest risk against which member countries are called upon to take countermeasures, while Myanmar has been classified as a nation under