NORTH KOREAN FACTORIES

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• Publication Date: September 6, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Worth Korean heavyerndustry eeered under the policy uf'Llee 4apenese regimes,
Oet redo great ergOress under the eontrol of the Coneunist government after
World War II? Thu North Korean government attempted to achieve solfeeufficencye
particularly in mining machines,? farm tools, and basic industrial machines.
Preduction in. 1948 exceeded that of 1944 and In August 1950 the North Koreans
-were able to supply 40 percent of their internal demand from their ownepreduc-
elon, By early 1951, most of the plants were not able to run because of either
a laek of electricity or damage by United Nations forces, The Cosnrutdsts were
plannenee to take the small _movable machinery to the North Pyongan areas where
planez wore little damaged,, Medium and mall plants for repair work and mvni-
ale manufacturing were operating in the Pyongyang area,
Tee f liming are major North Korean heavy- industry factories3
Chinnameo Shipyard Chinnampo (125-14 38-44); 4500 employees; equipment con-
eisto of a 2,000-ten dock which Is 40 percent finished, a 1,500-ton shipway,,
2Aa mechines the yard can turn out 3,000-ton steel ships,
Chengjin Chipyards Chongjin (129-46p 41-46); 600 employees; formerly known as
The Chosen Shipyard Company; equipment consists of one 750-tan dock and about
20 machines the yard can turn out 5?,0004on wooden shipso
Chrmg Wang Nhebine Factory a Kirim-ni, Pyongyang; 4200 employees; formerly
known as the Showa Air Plane Factory; equipment consists of 13 cupolas and 120
leachinal; products are lathes and files,
Haeju Ilechine Factory Haeju (125e42, 3C-02); 900 employees formerly kmawn
as the Sumitomo Steal Works; equipment ccnsists of one Yale electric furnace
Three cepolas, and 20 other pieces of machinery; products are mining tools and
eachinee,
1,.-eaction Machine Planta Munchen (127-42? 39-)8); 900 employees; formerly known
the North Korea Steel Works; equipment consists of three Yale electric
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eeeelesee and two cupolas; products are mining tools and machinery.
Hure Machine Plant Iwon (128-36, 40-20); 800 employees; formerly -known
ee the iwon Mine Plant; equipment consists 'of three open electric furnacee and
if Yale electric furnace; steel products.
Nakuot Machine Plant!. Nelowon, North Pyoneyal; 1,000 employees; formerly known
es the Oriental Commercial Company Special Metals Plant; equipment consists
of cue Yale electric furnace, two cupolas and 54 other machines; products
ere 1,,,00 tons ef minieng tools and machines and 26,400 cubic meters of oxygen
yearly.
Ielschong Machine Plant Pukchong (128-18, 40-14); 1,200 employees; formerly
tenwn as the Geleantal Light Metal Plant; equipment consists of one Yale elece,
tric fnreece and nine cupolas; products are 22,000 tone of general machinery
and 15,000 tons of aluminum utensils each year.
reongyane Needle Plant': Pyongyang; 600 employees; equipment consists of one
eapola, 45 machines and 8 needleemaktng machines; the factory produces about
le000,000 needles a year.
Pyongyang ierm Tool Plant; Pyongyange equipment consists of two cupolas and 35
eeher rechines ; products are 4,000 threshing machines, 20,000 lawn mowers, 600
eepoemnicing mnehines, and 7,000 "turning" machines a year.
Seman leechine Factory Senan (125-42, 39"12); 300 employees; formerly known as
tee Nurimoto Iron Works; equipment consists of two cupolas; products are 12,000
eealose C.000 weighing machines and 500 welding tools a year.
Tens Pyongyang Lachine Factory; Pyongyang; 400 employees; formerly known ael
the Korean STneYeleseCoal Plant; equipment consists of one cupola and 40 machines;
products are IGO turbine pumps a year,
liensan ShIpyardn* Wonsan; 1,800 employees; formerly known as the Chosen Ship-
yerd; equipment consists of 40 machines, a 35)000e-ton dock, a 2?000-ton shipway
and Cwo eepolas; the yard can turn out 4?000-ton steel ships and 600-horee-
reuer end 200-horsepower steam engines.
Yong Song Mnchine Paetory! Hungnam; 1e800 employees; formerly known as the
Nippon Altrogen Plant; equipment consists of two Yale-type electric furnaces,
8 cupolae and 13 machines ; products are 5,000 tons of acid, alkali and heat-
preof ceseing a year and 110 tons of pipe and 220 tons of nails a year. About
40 percent of the equipment and 70 percent of the buildings were destroyed
hy September 1950.
The valve of yearly production of North Korean light industry was as follows?,
1947
1948
1949
1,847,739 won
2e173p858 won
3,348e670 won
'rem January to Ney 1950, light industry production was as follows 4
Cotton thread
Rawsilk
tifici al silk
Cotton cloth
238 tons
14 tone
150- tons
1,110 kilometers
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Silk fabrics
ertifioial silk fabrics
P000r
Sov bean. oil
171 kilometers
270 kilomoters
1,890 tons
1,350 tons
So The large light industry factories were moved nnderground. 'lost of these
slants had been taken over from the Japanese and enlarged. The most impor-
nant of these are as follows:
Ulchn Pulp Plant : Kilchu (129-20, 40-58); 1,200 employees; equipmen? con-
sists of two paper machines; products aro 60 tons of artificial pulp, 35 tons
of papor, and 60 kiloliters of alelsol a day.
Fyongyang Cornstarch Factory: Pyongyang; 1,000 employees; formerly known as
the Nippon Cornstarch Company; products are 252000 toxic of starch and 1,0200
tons of millet ;jelly ye,rly? and 240 tons of glucose monthly.
ngyo.ae: Silk Textile Plant: Pyongyang; 1,300 employees; equipment consists
of 300 silk-reeling machines. 32 cotton weaving machines, 82 ailk-wea-
nachines,, and 12 otanowrx-sille machines; products are 850 meters of silk fabric,
0 reero of cotton fabric, 60 kilograms of thrown silk, and 200 kilograms
of raw silk o day.
Sasiwon Textile Plant: Sariwon (125-44ti $8-30); 2,500 employees; formerly
known_ as the Oriental Spinning Company; equipment consists of 16 spinning ma--
&lines, 288 silkwoaving machlnes 42 sewing machines, 360 wool-spinX,ng ma-
ohines? and 36 wool-..weaving machines; products are 3 tons of cotton thread,
17 kilometere of cotton cloth, 200 meters of woolen cloth, and 350 work dreeses
a day.
Pyonsyang Fabric Plant: West Pyongyang; 1s.60J employees; equipment consists
of 94 silk-weaving machines and 28 special weaving machines; products are 1,400
reters of artificial silk and 300 meters of special stuff a day.
Sinuiju Paper 14113: Sinuiju (124-24, 40-06); 900 employees: formerly known as
the Oji Papor flill; equipment consists of four paper machines; products are
'SJ tuns of rolled paper and 3 tons of rice paper a day.
Sinoiju Pulp Plant; Sinuiju; 1,200 employees; equipment consists of two paper
ischiroe; rroducts are 30 tons of reed pulp and five tons of drawing paper a day
3-Lrozi,j1.L Textile Plant; Sinuiju; 2,300 employees; formerly known as the Oriental
Tortile Factory; equipment consist of 21 spinning machines; 410 cotton-weaving
vachjnea and 32 sewing machines: pnoducts are 55 ons of cotton threan, 30000
ieters of ctoth, and 250 working doesses each day
O. Some of the smaller light industry factories are as follows
Anju (125-40t 39-36) Silk Textile Pactory: products are 102000 meters of arti-
ailk yearly.
Chinnampo Silk Textile Factory: products are 4,500 meters of artificial silk
dally
Ck.sem,11.n Spinning Factory: products are sight tons of artificial silk each day.
Fisfe Yong Paper all: products are two tons of paper daily.
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North Korean Flax Factory: products are 240 meters of flax rope each day.
yongyang Chemical Plant: products are 150 tons of staple fiber daily?
Pyongyang Spinning Factory: products are 18 tons of cotton thread daily?
ozItablished plants are as follows:
Chinnarpo Plate Glass Plant: This plant was formerly the Chinnampo light
metals plant which was changed to glass production because of a shortage of
raw raterials in /948. Only expermental production was carried on here.
pyongyang Rubber Plant: This plant was established in 1947 and produces belts
ard tires?
Pyongyang -Spinning Plant: This plant was formed in August 1949 and has 3,000
spindles,,
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