NORTH KOREAN VEHICLE DIFFICULTIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006000220006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 10, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT NOm
COUNTRI~ KKorea
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1~ Because a].l vehicles in North Korea except those used by the military forces
azxd a few civilian agencies have bAen equipped to operate on charcoal, car-
bide and othor substitute feels, coils' condensers and spar}-plugs rspidly
become defectiveo Replacements for these parts are received through the
Churin Company, which imports the Parts Pram DairenA Distribution is onlry
to military agenciesp
20 To overcome the d3.fficulty of replacement, the Kiyang factory (a25-~~2g 3~ 5t~)
and the Pyongyang arsenal attempted to manufacture these partsa The atter~ts
failed, ho~ever9 because of the poor t~;chnical s'~.ll of the workers at the
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3 o About two hundred six-a~~iieel vehic~.es, w3.th d3.ese1 engines, were left at
1',~on~ang by the Japanese at the end of the ~r ~ One hundred and fifty of
these ~~erv shipped to the USSR after the Sovl.ets occnried North Kareap The
remaining fix:~~~y were coxiverted to gasoline coa~svming vehicles and turned
over "~ the ~EOple~s Arr~ra Because of frequent engine trouble, the vehicles
were seldom used, and in Play 195p, forty of the re~aaining vehicles were
shipped bar freight cars from F'yongvang to Navin (130-],5, 42 10) far trans-
shipment to the USSRo
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