According to a list compiled by the U.S Department of State, the United States responded with sanctions on average once a month to North Korea's missile launches and cybercrimes between January and November last year, to "deprive the DPRK of the funds to advance its destabilizing missile and weapons of mass destruction programs." During this period, the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed a total of 33 sanctions against individuals, companies, and organizations in seven countries, among them China, Russia, and the DPRK itself.