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U.S. officials in the past three years have increasingly used a little-known but powerful data-gathering measure to identify illicit proceeds moving through the global financial system, including assets currently flowing to and from North Korea, say sources. Section 1010.360, Title 31 of the U.S. Code of Federal Regulations authorizes the Treasury Department to order that domestic lenders hand over records pertaining to any commerce they may have had with a targeted "foreign financial agency"-a term that encompasses not only foreign banks, but persons and nonbank firms that act as banks. The department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, recently used...