Harnessing the financial furies: Smart financial power and national security

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 43-59

  Zarate, Juan C ^a  

^a CSIS ^*  (United States)

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EID: 70450206633     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: 15309177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01636600903235890     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. See Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act of 2001, Public Law No: 107-56, 107th Cong., 1st sess. (October 24, 2001) http://epic.org/privacy/terrorism/hr3162.pdf.
2. Financial Action Task Force, "40 Recommendations," Web site, October 2003, http://www.fatf-gafi.org/document/28/0,3343,en_32250379_32236930_33658140_1_1_1_1,00.html.
3. Executive Order 13224, Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of Treasury, September 23, 2001, http://www.treasury.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/terror/terror.pdf.
4. See UN Security Council Resolution 1267, S/RES/1267 (1999), October 15, 1999, http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/pdf/unscr1267.pdf.
5. Executive Order 13382, Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of Treasury, June 29, 2005, http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/programs/wmd/wmd.pdf.
6. UN Security Council Resolution 1874, S/RES/1874 (2009), June 12, 2009, http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N09/368/49/PDF/N0936849.pdf?OpenElement.
7. "Since 2007, Hong Kong Electronics has transferred millions of dollars of proliferation- related funds on behalf of Tanchon and KOMID. Hong Kong Electronics has also facilitated the movement of money from Iran to North Korea on behalf of KOMID. Tanchon, a commercial bank based in Pyongyang, North Korea, is the financial arm for KOMID - North Korea's premier arms dealer and main exporter of goods and equipment related to ballistic missiles and conventional weapons." See U.S. Department of Treasury, "Treasury Targets North Korea's Missile Proliferation Network," June 30, 2009, http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg191.htm (press release).