"Makes me wonder what groups and what national affiliations."

No need to wonder- just READ the source material.


"Communist North Korea's moribund economy is heavily dependent on cash infusions from a large community of sympathetic ethnic Koreans in Japan. Abe said the government devised its list of sanction targets using information from other governments and information from its own findings, including groups with histories of illegal activities. He did not give specifics.

Among the groups subject to the crackdown are Kohas AG, the Korea Kwangsong Trading Corp., the Korea Complex Equipment Import Corp., the Korea Mining Development Trading Corp., the Tosong Technology Trading Corp., Tanchon Commercial Bank and Ponghwa Hospital in Pyongyang.

The individual is Jakob Steiger, 65, president of Kohas AG, a Swiss company."