TOWN PLAN OF SAMSU-UP, SAMSU-GUN, YANGGANG-DO

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2010
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 2, 1959
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information erecting the Natic?ai DKense of the United States within the meaning of the Esniona Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Seas. 799 and 794, the ttansmiseion or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthor1si50X1-HUMS by law.
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COUNTRY North Korea
SUBJECT Town Plan of Samsu-up,
Samsu-gun, Yanggang-do
DATE DISTR., at October 1959
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REFERENCES RD
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PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
inrormation on installations in Samsu up (DA 180715), keyed to a plan of the
town, and on living conditions and products of the area
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I. Details
P!M9U__AP_ r JPlan
1. General Description: Samsu-gyp, locetted at DA 180715 in Sa:asu-gun, Yanggsng-
o s the seat of the township office of lH u-my n, Ssau;'u-gun and wris
called Songnae-ri prior to the administrative reorganization in NK. Ap-
pr+ozimately 80 percent of the total area of S- men-gun was to the deep
mountains where there were practically no paddy fields. (t'$ngsu-xi, 50X1-HUM
for Instance, was covered with forest;, except a nar
strip of level ground on both sides of a at-e a that was fioving towards
i ongp'.ng-ni (DA 162793), Sams:-gun. The staple farm crop in. Semsu-gun was
the potato which vas produced in plenty in 1958.
The farmers
u-gun so gan grow flax and hops (which became the raw material
for the manufacture of sulphur) since 1957 in full swing according to the
encouragement of the NK Government which purchased flax and hop blossoms
50X1-HUM blossoms were used as raw material of sulphur), and potatoes from the faxsmrs in exchange for rice. The cultural and educat:tonal standard
of the inl bitants in Samsu-gun was such lover than that In other parts
of NK. It" vas spring in 1958 when electricity was first Introduced to
Ssssu-dip which means it was the last seat of a county office to see the
electric lights, and in Ch?$ngsu?ri, there vas not a single soul who
possessed a radio. Hoer, the inhabitants conquered all superstitious
beliefs, and the laborers called each other as elder brother or younger 50X1-HUM
brother according to seniority in age which was one of the local features
in that area.
they and* some :illegal sales of their farm crops s=ag selves, selling
one ste01 mel of rice at 100 W n. Some of the Inhabitants were recruited
as laborers and were sent to the Soviet Union (very probably Siberia) follow-
ing the Liberation, and five farmers from Ch?ongsu-ri joined this
party of laborers to cut trees for two years. In the spring of 195 toot
there was a recruitment of tree cutters going to the Sovie?;; Union, and 50X1-HUM
one of the tree cutters at tlee Ch'y6ngsu Work Station, Semen Forestry Stati
responded to the call,
laborers were forbidden to take their families with theta, and they were
expected to work three years in the Soviet Union. As coal mines or any
other mines were not exploited in Semsu-Bun, a campaign fox' the collection
of mineral rocks was conducted throughout the county in 19'57-1958, and
grotesque rocks were picked up by people from the vorkshopa'f, schools, and
villages as competitive units. In the spring of 1958, a geological 50X1-HUM
survey panty, which consisted of a Soviet engineer and two Koreans
ex ,loread the mountains in Ch a inresu
The mamiber s of the party
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examined the rocks which had been gathered by the villagers. But perhaps,
these racks were found of no value, because by the end of 1958, the mineral
rock collection esmpaign was discontinued. The three principal industries
in Saasu were 1) The Samsu Forestry Station with four tree cutting work
stations see separate report) 2) the flax mill (small scale), one kilometer
to the vast of Semsu Dip, and 3) the Tbngsu Livestock Farm in Tbngsu-ri,
Saisu-gun.. The flare mill was a branch of the Pukch'$ng Flax milt, we it
was run by approximately 100 employees, mostly females reeling thread
of flax grown in Sensu-gun and sending it to Pakch'
At the 4bngsu Livestock F-ra, hogs were raised
no allitax7 establiansnts in Samsu-gun.
There were
Brtwen B asu -p and $pessn (D& 3283) buses ran, making one round trip by
starting Bysean at 0800 hours and. arriving in Snmau Ap.at 1030 hours, and
returning for By esan Immediately, In addition, the bur running from Hyesan
to Slap's (map coordinate unknown) which started from S 'a in the mornina
stayped at Semen once each da . 50X1-HUM
ere were 25 v ages amsu..
gun, abMt "If of thwe Inhabitants in Ssmsu-)&p were fare who suffered
no deaagss during the Korean War.
2.
lanation to the Samau-gyp
(town) Plan: (See Attachment):
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roof and lime coated mud walls.
Samsu-gun Consumers'_Coo aeLrative Store: One-story sorer structure with
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board roof and line uslls, staffed with 4-5 female employees.
Consumeers' Cooperative Din zU: One-story wooden structures with
boaMroo and ime coated s