MACHINERY, CHEMICAL AND PULP FACTORIES, NORTH KOREA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001700380006-6
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• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 17, 2002
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: July 20, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SEC MRFORMAT;ON
SUBJECT Machinery, Chemical and Pulp
Factories, North Korea
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This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, am
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
to or receipt by an uneuthorieed person is prohibited
by law. The reproduction of this form is prohibited.
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1. The Pyongyang National Ironworks consists of three workshops at YD-1+221.
Workshop 1 is equipped with one cutting machine, two lathes, nine fans,
one 30-horsepower and one lOAhorsepower motorf', and one generator. Two
large, three medium and five small nail manufacturing machines . are in-
stalled in Workshop 2. Workshop 3 is equipped with one boring machine, one
30-horsepower motor, two ,r( s -made tool machines, two Japanese-made tool
machines and seven other tool-making machines.. On 10 March the Ironworks'
warehouse contained 7,000 shovels, 1,500 hammers, 5,000 hooks, 10,..000
locks,. 15,000 40-centimeter spikes, 1,500 sickles, 1,500 picks, 5,000 hoes,
15,000 sewing needles for sewing shoes, 6,000 fire tongs) 100 bags of
nails (sic),, 8,000 keys and 8,000 fireplace shovels. Raw-material is
obtained through scrap iron drives while nails are made from old telephone
lines left behind by United Nations forces.. Workshop 1 turns out shovels,
hammers, sickles, picks, hoes, hooks and nails; Workshop 2 manufactures
nails; and Workshop 3.manufactures fire tongs., keys and other small items.
2. The Ironworks had been established in 1952 by the Ministry of Reavy Industry
to manufacture materials needed to reconstruct bridges. It now employs
25 clerical workers, three technicians, 50 skilled laborers and 83 non-
skilled laborers. Training programs are held for non-'skilled workers.
The plant director receives a monthly salary of 1,800 North Korean won,
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the deputy director receives 1,600 won, each section chief receives 1,300 to
1,400 on, technicians receive 1,600 to 1,700 won and the clerical workers and
laborers--aycrage between 700 and 1,100 won. All employees receive 'a rice and
millet ration according to their type of work; heavy laborers receive 900 grams,
light laborers receive 800 grams, and clerical workers receive 600 grams..
Dependents of employees receive 380 grams of grains each day. The employees
are cultivating 3,000 p'yong of dry fields and 2,000 p''yong of rice fields.
The products raised on these fields are given to the employees.
The Sinuiju Pulp Factory2 is in an air raid shelter at XE-1839. The director
of the factory is TS'A0 Chong-sub who is Chinese and is 39-years-old. The
factory employs 150 clerical workers, 300 technicians'and. 1,000 laborers.
Salaries range from 1,200 to 1,500 North Korean won a month. Equipment of
the factory includes five large paper machines, seven medium-sized paper
machines and: seven small paper machines. Raw materials are procured from
the Kwantung Police Bureau (7070/2639/0361/1344/4920/1444) in Ch'angp'anch'iao
(1603/4323/2890), Dairen, with prior permission of the Soviet Union. The
following staff members are in charge of raw material procurement and,
according to rumors, have visited Dairen and the Soviet Union: KIM Chan-ho
(6855/6363/3185), aged 35 and a native of South P'yongan Province
KIM Yongi.hwan (6855/3057/3562), aged 35 and a native of North Ptyongan
Province; Yl Ch'ang?pok (2621/2490/4395), aged 33 and a native of South
F'yongan Province. While in Dairen, the staff members are said to have
stayed at the Taho (1129/0735) Hotel.
4. The Sunch'on (N 39-25, E-7..25.56) (YD-5267) Chemical Plant is in four caves at
the foot of a'mountain 850 meters west of Kamse-dong,Kamdong-ni, Pukchang-
myon (approximately N 39>29, E 126-02., BU-4571+), The plant produces 50 tons
of carbide, 40 bottles of oxygen and 20 tons of calcium nitrate each day. Some
of the raw material is obtained from the mountain behind the plant while calcium
oxide is transported to the plant by three ZIS trucks from a mine in Sinch'ang-
Lyon (approximately N 39-19 E.126-08,, BU-5355). Plant equipment consists of
two 50-kva transformers, one 25-kva transformer, three kilns, two 100-horsepower
compressors, three melting furnaces and two calcium nitrate manufacturing
machines.. The plant employs 17 clerical workers, 30 technicians,.and 180
laborers. Each employee receives a daily ration of 500 grams of rice and 300
grams of other cereals. Monthly salaries range from 1,300 to 1,800 North
Korean won.
The Central Machinery Factory is in several caves at the foot of a hill at
BU-5136 nearKangdong (N 39-08 E 126-06) (BU-4936). Products of the
factory include" rifles, mortars, artillery shells and motor vehicle and
tanks parts. Machinery of the plant includgs 100 lathes, 60 drills and
50 metal cutting machines. The chief of the factory is KIM Chin-kap (6855/
6966/3946), aged 46 and a native.of Ch'ongjin. KIM U-kyong (6855/4416/6975),
aged 33 and a native of Kangwon Province, is the deputy chief. Both men
are members of the North Korean"'Labor Party and graduates of middle school.
Five hundred persons, mostly discharged'North Korean army soldiers, are
employed at the plant. Each employee has a special pass to enter the plant.
According to his job classification, each employee receives 600 to 900 grams
of rice each day and 1,000 to 2,000 North Korean won each month.
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Comments.
1. One p'yong equals approximately four square yards.
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This name is given in the Korean phonetic equivalent.
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