WONSON SHIPYARDS REPAIR USSR WAR VESSELS

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• Document Release Date: August 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 969
• Publication Date: July 14, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Sopuk Sinmun
COUNTRY North Korea; Manchuria
SUBJECT Military
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Seoul
DATE
PUBLISHED 10 May 1950
LANGUAGE Korean
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS IOroISATIOII AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DE,EMSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE ^EANINN O, ESPIONASE ACT 00
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DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST. it Jul 1950
NO. OF PAGES 1
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
WONSON SHIPYARDS REPAIR USSR WAR VESSELS
SOVIET ENGINEERS ASSIST KOREANS -- Sopuk Sinmun, 10 May 50
The Wonsan Shipbuilding Company of North Korea has converted all of its
peacetime shipbuilding operations into the repairing of war vessels of the USSR
and the coast guard vessels of the People's Republic.
The above company was taken over by the USSR from the Japanese at the time
of liberation, and remained under Soviet control even after the withdrawal of
the USSR troops from North Korea. The company operates as a subsidiary to the
Russo-Chosun fhipbuildinn7 Company. Soviet citizens of Korean extraction are
in the mangerial positions, assisted by seven Soviet engineers. Seven or eight
vessels can usually be seen docked here. A strict guard is placed around the
yard by the North Korean coast guards.
HARBIN REPORTEDLY BEING REBUILT -- Sopuk Sinmun, 10 May 50
Recently, large-scale construction has been taking place in the Manchurian
city of Harbin. A large labor force and materials collected from'Manchuria and
North Korea have been mobilized for the project. The nature of construdtion is
not known.
After the occupation of Manchuria, the USSR made this city into a military
base as well,-as a base for expansion of her influence in the Far East. The city's
population has been increasing` rapidly as a result of a large number of Soviet im-
migrants. Among the laborers mobilized are the Japanese prisoners of war and Man-
churian coolies. Large quantities of lumber and cement are being transported from
North Korea. Trains are shipping lumbers manufactured by the mills in Kanggye..and
Sinuiju, P'yongan Pukto, to Harbin via Andong (near Sinuiju) each day. Most of.
the cement produced in_Munch'on, Hamgyong Namdo, and in Komusan, Hamgyong Pukto,
has also been shWed to Harbin.
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CLASSIF;CATION CONFIDENTIAIt'
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR F;DIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
NSRS
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