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Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor) register: licensed insurers in North Korea
PartialPartially verified against the Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor) register, checked 4 Sept 2026.
The Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor) register for North Korea as the directory holds it: 4 licensed insurers with the identifiers the register carries, ready to export as JSON.
Snapshot
By class of business
Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.
By ownership
“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded
Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor) register rows
All 4 entities.
| Insurer | Class | Register id | LEI | Registered | Website | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Korea National Insurance Corporation | CComposite | — | — | — | — | Partial |
| Mirae Reinsurance Company | RReinsurer | — | — | — | — | Partial |
| Pukguksong Insurance Company | GGeneral (Non-life) | — | — | — | — | Partial |
| Samhae Insurance Company | GGeneral (Non-life) | — | — | — | — | Partial |
Regulatory intelligence: North Korea
Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.
- Supervisor
- Central insurance guidance institution (no independent supervisor)
- Regime
- Insurance Law of the DPRK (1995, amended 2015); operating permits from the central insurance guidance institution; state-directed market
- Register source
- 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.
- Verification
- Partially verified against the regulator register · 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.
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- Insurance Law of the DPRK (1995, amended 2015) · Institutional and insurance framework
Operating permits for insurers from the central insurance guidance institution.
Verification log
Four insurers are named by credible sources: KNIC (state insurer since 1947) plus three companies set up in 2016-2017 to serve foreign investors in the special economic zones. Names are romanised differently across sources (Pukguksong = Polestar; Mirae = Future Re). Rainbow Intermediaries (Pyongyang, est. 2015) is a broker and is excluded. There is no public register, so these may not be all of them. A 2020 NK News piece says four DPRK insurers opened Naenara websites, which fits the four here. Ownership of the three newer companies is not stated by any source; SO is presumed because the DPRK economy is state-owned.
For B2B teams and AI agents
The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.
curl -s https://asia-pacific.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/north-korea.json
curl -s https://asia-pacific.insurers.global/api/v1/countries/north-korea/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://asia-pacific.insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "north-korea" }, orlist_insurerswithcountry,limitandoffsetfor paged rows. - OpenAPI 3.1: /api/v1/openapi.json · WebMCP: /.well-known/webmcp.json · Guide: /ai/ · llms.txt
- Dataset version
2026-09-08+97f331e66662; every response carriesversion,verifiedandlicence.