NORTH KOREAN INTEGRATION INTO THE BLOC

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000200040003-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: December 3, 1953
• Content Type: BRIEF

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NSC BRIEFING 3 December 1953
NORTH KOREAN INTEGRATION
INTO THE BLOC
I. Moscow and Peiping integrating North Korea
into the Orbit, indicating no unification
of Korea; also practical demonstration
of Communists' achievement.
II. On 8 August USSR offered North Korea
a $250, 000, 000 grant "for the restoration
of Korea's national economy.
(a) This aid largely goes to Yalu Power Plant
(b) Songjin steel works
(c) The Nampo coal mine
(d) The Hungnam chemical works
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D. In view of the virtual destruction
North Korean heavy industry, ere is
no justification for r ilding it in
the prewar patter except to make
certain it tinues to feed into some
Commun t industrial oomplex in
churia or the Soviet Far East.
!III. North Korea o signed technical and
economic agreements with
Eastern European satellites.
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IV. Communist China I furthedd +&e integra-
tion of North Korea
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A. On 23 November, #W Sino-Sov
at Peiping providing $350,000,000 in
aid through 1957 and writing off the
entire North Korean war debt.
B. Under the pact, China will send coal,
clothes, cotton, food, construction
materials, fishing vessels, transpor-
tation equipment, metal products, farm
implements, paper, and stationery to
North Korea.
C. China also promised to help repair the
North Korean rail net, which Peiping
controls and operates through a joint
CCF-NKA railroad bureau, and to supply
Pyongyang with railroad rolling stock.
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V. The Chinese y send/larg
e"k- O 1T construction workers into
North Korea since the truce to
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A. Arm-wan?-we 40 , 000 Chinese railway
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B. About 1 August, 54,000 construction
workers arrived from Manchuria and the
Pyongyang press said this number would
eventually reach 100,000.
C. restoring suc v a
`'T'T'Y, 4his influx of Chinese will
enable North Korea to carry out any
army buildup, which is apparently
under way.
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