ECONOMICS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250178-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 178
• Publication Date: September 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOMJMENTS OR RADIO BROADCAST'S CD NO,
COUNTRY North Korea
SUBJECT Economics
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Seoul
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 Jun 1549
LANGUAGE Korean
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
The Sup'ung Pam crisis is not a problem that concerns only the North
Korean puppet regime but It is also a serious economic threat to Korea as
a whole. At the tise of liberation, there were three 60-oyole,, 3,00,000
kilovolt-ampere generators and three 50-cycle 100,000 kilovolt-ampere
generators, but immediately after the liberation, the Soviet Army removed
throe generators.
North Korea alone u[ed to produce 1,260,000 kilowatts but the removal
of generators from Sup'ung Dam by the Soviet Arne has deprived North Korea
of about 300,000 kilowatts of electricity. Another reduction of 100,000
kilowatts was causrd by the tisability of thermal plants. Thus, North Korea's
present power production is about 860,000 kilowatts. Of this 150,000 kilo-
watts muea bo delivered to Manchuria and another 500,000 kilowatts east be
delivered to Vialivosdotok, What North Korea can distribute for her domestic
consumption is approximately 200,000 kilowatts, and this is far from sufficient,.
Since North Korea stopped sending electricity to South Korea, the
officials of the North Korean puppet government began hbating their official
quartbrs with electricity. All of a sudden. however, the USSR decided to
rush the reconstruction work in Siberia, and North Korea was ordered to send
the necessary amounts of electric power to Siberia and to construct a gp;antic
transforming station in Vladivostok. The Soviet Uhion is now pushing forvard
her Eastern defense system in preparation for a third World War'. In the mean-
while, North Korea is having a great deal of difficulty in trying to aebt her
domestic need of electricity.
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