INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES IN NORTH KOREA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013200360008-2
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• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 2006
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
CLASSIFICATION . CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
COUNTRY Korea
SUBJECT , Industrial Facilities in North Korea
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DATE DISTR. 11 Aug. 1952
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF.TITLE 18, SECTIONS 193
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON 15
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
Munitions and Army Factories
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On 3 June 1952, a North Korean hand grenade factory at Chungeh6ng-ni
(127-26, 39-08) (Cu-6532), 500 meters west of W6nsan, employed approximately
two hundred persons and was producing daily three hundred hand grenades,
five hundred mines, thrity cases of anti-aircraft ammunition, one thousand
gun-cleaning rods, and five hundred shovels. These products were being sent
to Anby6n (127-31, 39-03) (CU-7223) for storage and transshipment. The factory's
engineering section, directed by KANG Ho-so, aged 40, employed eighty persons
and was equipped with two fifty-horsepower generators and machinery for the
manufacture of hand grenades. The factory's mineral section, employing forty
persons, contained most of the machinery used in manufacturing the hand
grenades and the mines:.
2. on 3 June, a North Korean army rubber factory in a shelter near Kwanp'ung-ni
(127-24, 39-09) (CU-6234), employing 150 laborers and controlled by the general
headquarters, was producing four hundred pairs of rubber shoes daily. Five
North Korean army officers and fifteen sergeants supervised factory operations..
The factory office was 100 meters north of the factory.
In late May 1952 a North Korean army textile plant, in an air raid shelter
surrounding the school building at Chl6lsan-ni (125-46, 38-31) (YC-4166),
employed approximately, fifteen hundred persons. The plant operated twenty-four
hours each day.
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4. In early May 1952 a North Korean army factory at Sangsong-ni (126-03, 38-25)
(BT-4256) employed approximately twenty technicians, thirty office workers,
and 150 laborers and produced daily six hundred buckets, eight hundred
aluminum plates, seven wagons, fifteen hundred packs of tooth powder, and
chalk.
National Nampo Textile Mill
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In May 1952 the North Korean National Nampo Textile Mill, which had reopened
in March in a former garage at approximately UD-042035 and a church at
approximately UD-041034, employed 105 women, .and five men as laborers and
produced an average of 750 meters of rayon cloth a c*y in strips of
approximately 15 1/2 meters. One building of the mill, formerly used as a
garage, was 36 meters long, 16 meters wide, and 6 meters high, and had a
tile roof and cement walls. The second building, 200 meters north of the first
building, was 16 meters long, 8 meters wide, and 10 meters high. and had a
slate roof and cement walls, Japanese equipment ht the mill included fifty
automatic weaving machines, two automatic warp arranging machines, six
automatic spinning machines, and two automatic winding machines. Two 75-
horsepower motors and two ten-horsepower motors were used at the mill.
Rayon yarn stored by the Ch'ongjin textile mill was being used as raw
material. The procurement offices of the Commercial Control Department of the
North Korean Ministry of Industry purchased the output of the mill.at the
price of 43 1/2 North Korean won.for each meter of rayon cloth,
The mill operated day and night.. It was managed by PAK T6k-Jong, aged 34, a
member of the North Korean Labor Party, and comprised a materials section of
two men, an accounting section of two men, a staff laborers section of one man.,
and a production section directed by.six men, The production section included
a yarn sub-section of twenty men, a weaving sub-section of eighty men, and a
warp arranging sub-section of ten men. The average age of mill employees was
19 years; the maximum age, 37 years; and the minimum age; 15 years.
The mill was one of the most important assets of North Korean light industry
from August 1946 when the North Korea Interim People's Committee authorized
production until the start of the Korean war,.when the mill employed nine
hundred personsd United Nations aircraft bombed the mill twice; on 4 September
1950 the mill was transferred to the two buildings occupied in May 1952, The
United Nations advance in the fall of 1951 closed the mill temporarily.
In May 1952. subsidiary plants of the mill were at Hongbom-ni (125-19, 38,.58)
(` D-0115) and Hamjong-ni (125-20, 38-59) (YD-0217).
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