WONSAN SHIPBUILDING YARDS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007900530004-7
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 18, 2003
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 13, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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mood manager of the yard'canoe 1948. Former manager, wer KIM -
ng-ha VA: 114 ) from 1945 entil December 1946 ad CHOW Kart-mo
4(441 ) fr December 1946 until January 1948.
b. Departments: Administrative, planning, financial; saipbuildiee labore?
and production.
c. EMployeee: 110 office workers, including techniolane, *ad 1,300 laborers.
d. Buildings: 27 bitildings were divided among two yard arees? with a total
of 28,290 square meters of. floor space. Yard space as about 71,000
square meters
2. When World War II ended., the Japanese had 20 half-constructed ships at the
Wonsan shipyards. .In October 1946 a contract was made between the yard and
the Soviet navy to complete those ships by ?r 1947, aed about 4,000;000
North Korean woreeas advanced by the Soviets for this purpose? The ships were
.to be as follows:
12 wooden cargo ships
8 wooden tugs
150 Ulla each
80 tons each
Total tonnage: 1,800
Total tonnage; 640
However, by Hey 1947 the contract was not completed, and after the delivarY
of seven of the cargo ships and five of the tugs, CaptaiL Kapteuenkr 04the
Soviet contractor, ceneeled the remainder of the order it had been imposeible
to oompIete the ship p because of a lack of lumber; the Soviets had promised
a supply but did not deliver it. Because of the cancelation of the order,
the shipyard suffered financially. The Soviets refused to accept other ships
fran the yard in the future and complained of inferior ccnstruction in the
ships they had received. F3'eel1y0 the financial matter vas handed to the
North Korean Irebeetr7 Buremewhich made a settlemeet eitil the Soviet naval
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In 1948 he North Korean government began a two-year program to enlarge the
shipyards in order to build vessels for the North Xpreen i.ar. Before the
Korean war two cargo ships of 800 and 1,500 tons respeotiely were uLder con
struction. During 1948, about 15 Soviet naval vessels were repaired in these
yards along with some Korean fishing boats.
The director of the agency for the Soviet-Far Eastern Traing poraparw4n
Wonsan, torisevp age 45, placed an order for 30 flat cargo barges frci 40 to
60 tons with the Wonsan. Shipyards in 1948, Andrev, a 3oviet technician in
the yards, said they were to be used in the Kuril Islands, Only 18 heats were
delivered because of a lack of material, and even those lt!' were unusable.
6, CH86 Kelk,a0, former manager of the yard during the period of the Soviet con-
tract, was relieved of his position and went to work in a. textile mill In
Pyongyang in January 1948. In February 1948 he was arrested and sentenced
to 17 years imprisonment by the People's Court of PyongyaDo,. but he was ac-
Tatted upon appeal to a higher court. HONG Un-pyo ( )p inspection
and construction section chiet? was arreeted in 1943 ased73entenced to eight
years imprisonment on charges of negligence and inefficiency.
7. In' November 1946 less than 20 percent of the shipyard workers were NW medbers.
In 1947 the authorities announced a proposed out of 500 wyrkers, and the non-
Communistsp afraid of unemployment, joined the party. The Cpmpunists:held
indoctrination classes and reading clubs two or three times a week among the
employees.
0? Statistics concerning the first division 6t the shipyard eore as follows:
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Lumber mill wooden 450
Iron foundries (2) cement 5,500
Welding shops (2) brick 6,000
Pattern shop cement, 2 floors 200
Nail shop, 180
Casting shop wooden 130
Warehouse cement, 2 floors 350
Hospital cement, 3 floors 200
Offices (2) cement, 2 floors 500
X"ele. hall wooden 180
, Yard space, 7 ship construction areas 16,000
9, Statistics concerning the second division of the shipyard were as follows:
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Lumber mill wooden 250
Iron foundry wooden 200
Pattern ehop cement 2,200
Welding shops (2) cement 3,100
Drying room - cement 3,100
Drafting room cement 3,100
Warehouses (2) wooden 800
Office wooden 250
Auditorium wooden 1,000
Mees hall wooden 100
Dormitory cement .250
Dormitory cement, 2 floors 200
Yard space 10 ship construction areas 55,000
Molt 1 diagram of Wonsan shipbuilding yards
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