The United States government has issued designations and unsealed charges against a Chinese company and affiliated individuals linked to illicit trade with North Korea, according to official press releases issued on Monday.

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Dandong HongXiang Industrial Development Co. Ltd. (DHID) and four senior managers under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382, which targets WMD proliferators. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted the same four individuals for “conspiring to evade U.S. economic sanctions and violating the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators Sanctions Regulations (WMDPSR).”

The individuals were identified as being DHID’s Deputy General Manager