OFFICIAL AND SEMI-OFFICIAL OFFICES IN NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013900070011-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2006
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: September 20, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT
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COUNTRY Korea
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s c ura organizations were at the following approxi-
mate 3.acations:
Ministry of the Interior YD-3933330
Political Bureau, Ministry of the Interior -388253.
Ministry of Social Security YD-393329.
Ministry of Municipal Planning and Construction
Yxi-383253.
Ministry of Heavy Industry ID-3802570
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ARMY
In June offices of the North Korean government, the North Korean Labor Party,
foreign embaesi a d
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IkI,r 15 may 1952 the North Korean central post office was the only government
building still standing. The post office, however, was in a private home
roofed with iron plate at approximately YD-3852514.
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Ministry of Light Industry
Ministry of Railroad Transportation
Ministry of Labor
Ministry of Commerce
Purchasing Department, Ministry of Commerce, and
1 Division, Ministry.of Social Security
Monopoly Division, Ministry of Commerce
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Ministry of Public Health
Ministry of Culture and Propaganda
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Standing Ccnmittee,, People's Supreme Council
National~Inspection committee
North Korean Labor Party
Embassy of the Soviet Union
Embassy of Communist China
South Pdyongan Prosecutor and South P'yongan Court
Supreme Prosecutor
General. Federation of Trade Unions
Central Post Office
Korean-Soviet Cultural Association
Central. Broadcasting Station
P?yongyang City Internal Bureau
Pyongyang City Social Security Bureau
P ?yogyaang City Prosecutor, in the
college
South P ?yongan People's Committee
South P?y ngan Internal Bureau
Pyongyang City People's Committee
primary school
former theological
in the Namsan
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YD-365255.
YD"352263..
YD-386298..
YD-3422Z2.
YD-3882L8.
YD--3872.8.
YD-339218.:
YD-385232.
YD?385231.
YD-361323.
YD-387255..
CD-391214..
YD-380215..
YD-363322.
YD-378228.
YD-384236W.
YD-38921.7.,
YD-396276.
YD-387228.
D-389237.
YD-386237.
YD-387231..
-383227.
YD-380225.
YD.-385233.
YD-3892534
YD-383222.,
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Supreme Court YD-388217..
On 25 June foreign embassies housed in nine homes and seven trenches at approximately
X347303 near Ch' onnam-ni (125-b2, 39?-C5) (YD-34291 included the Soviet embassy,
consisting of an ambassador., three staff members, and one stenographer; this
Chinese Communist embassy, consisting of an ambassador and twenty staff members; the
Mongolian embassy., consisting of an ambassador and two staff members; and the
Czechoslovakian embassy, consisting of an ambassador and one staff member.
On 26 June the three hundred staff employees of the North Korean National Planning
Committee. were in offices at approximately YD-379272. A. Soviet adviser was attached
to the committee.-:
On 25 June nine companies of 120 students each were receiving _9 months of training
at the Central Police School of the North Korean Ministry of Interior, 300 meters
east of Yangsi (approximately XE-2526).
6. In mid-day the staff training school for the North Korean Ministry of Finance was at
approximately YD-371252.
70 In March 1952 the judicial department of the North Korean army was in a barracks and
concrete air-raid shelter at approximately YD-38732508. The barracks'was*15 meters
long and 6 meters wide, and the shelter was 10 meters long, 2 meters, and 2 meters
deeps A home, approximately 25 meters in front of the shelter, served as a dining-room.
The shelter was connected with the building used by the North Korean Supreme Court,.
8, In March, offices of the Democratic Korea Dail
.1Z News, newspaper of the North Korean...
cabinet and the people's committee of South ?y ngan province, were 50 meters from the
offices of the judicial department of the North Korean army.
9. The office of the supreme prosecutor of the North Korean army was in Room Number 80
on the second floor of Kim I.-song University at approximately YD-39702615.
10, In March the offices of the political staff of the Chinese Communist army were in a
cave at approximately YD-386123115, behind a building 120 meters south by'southeast of
the Moranpong Theater,, which building had been used at the and of World War 11 to billet
United States troops.
In Marche offices of the security bureau of the transportation squad, Ministry of the
Interior, Sand the. instruction department of the military police bureau of the judicial
department of the North Korean army were in caves, about 100 meters apart, at Oh'ongnu
Cliff., approximately YD-397237.
12. On 15 lay, the following installations and facilities in the P'y ngyang area were, unless
otherwise noted, completely intact-
Central post office, in a private home roofed with iron at approximately YD-385254-
Water purification plant at approximately YD-395212, immediately adjacent to the reservoir,
Ministry of Education in eaves at approximately YD-381215, behind the shell of the former
ministry .building.. r
Central power plant in a white plaster building at approximately YD-382219.
Aqueduct at approximately YD-3922142 joining the reservoir and Pyongyang city.
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Taedong bridge at approximately YDm39021O, repaired to withstand a thirty-ton load.
Wooden bridge at approximately YD-3902219 able to withstand a thi t-tors load.
Ministry of Propaganda in a building at approximately YD-381210 at the southern foot
of Moranpong.
Radio Station in underground rooms at approximately YD-3872141..
Railroad between approximately YD 358252 and approximately YD-358257, and the
extension of the road to approximately YD-359259. Locomotives were in a tunnel at
the last grid reference; a locomotive turntable was near this tunnel.
Training School of the Ministry of Finance at approximately YD-371252.
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