TRADE BETWEEN NORTH KOREA AND MANCHURIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004900550001-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 3, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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SU13JECT Trade between North Korea and Manchuria
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During December 1.9491, North Korea exported to Manchuria for the Northeast
People's Government forty tank cars* of petroleum (exact type unspecified)
for use in factory machines and lamps,, Thirty carloads of heavy oil were
also dispatched, in addition to twenty carloads of.chemical products and
sixty carloads of grain. These commodities were bartered at Autung (l24-==22 f,
40--08) for slik and cotton fabrics produced In Manchuria,,
2?, During the slack farm season from July to December 1949, the North Korean
government mobilized farmers to out railroad ties in the forests of Huichon.
(126-l6f, 40-10) QzUfltyn Chakang Province, and Yongwon (l26--32, 39--y50)
County,, North Pyougan Province, An estime.~ed 198,000 oak cross-ties had been
out and shipped by the and of January 1950, and the work was being continued,
The shipping destinations were Mukden and :rang Ch" uan (111t- _ NI) j) in Manchuria.,
3., In mid- lbbruary 1950. 10?000 lengths of rail wore delivered to the North Korean
railway shops between Pyongyang and Kanni (approximately 125-45? 3s=10),**
The rails were shipped into North Korea from harbin but had been transshipped
there from freight cars arriving from the WjR,,
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