1. CONDITIONS IN PYONGYANG 2. NORTH KOREAN COLLABORATORS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009700180007-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: January 10, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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 COUNTRY Korea
~ ORMAT`IOI REPORT
SUBJECT i. Conditions in Pyongyang
2. North Korean Collaborators
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Some residents of Pyongyang in July 1951 believed that United Nations troops
scald re-enter the city, and the North. Korean authorities were having difficulty
securing volunteer participation in commnnity activities or obedience to North
Korean directives and mobilisation orders. Night raids by mobilization
authorities who forcibly took away young men for compulsory labor or, armor service
were eomon. The ci tzens who expected the re-entry of United Nations forces
refused to hang the orth Korean flag on their gates and frequently posters
and propaganda wall tills were removed from house walls the morning after
they had been posted. In one case in Pyongyang a prominent person who was
appointed to the chairmanship of the neighborhood people's committee escaped
the responsibility by moving to another district. Others nominated for
similar posts wished to decline also but,, feeling that all had the same
sentiments, announced to the residents of the neighborhoods that since the
situation required chairmen, they would accept but wished the people to
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In Pyonyang in early July 1951 there were about 500,000 residents. Of these,
the ~3G,000 males wora diatr#. teed aqKfollaws: 110,000 from one to 15 years of
age; 40,000 from 15 to 18 years of'a e; 30,000 from 18 to 35 years of age; and
50 000 thirty-six years of age or older. The 270,000 female residents of the
oily were in these age groups in approximately the same proportion.
understand that they had not accepted Iftingly and did not wish to be
considered leftist if United Nations s re-entered the city.
The North Korean Labor Party decided prior to June 1951 to dismiss from party
rolls all those who had failed to retreat northward with the North Korean forces
and had remained under United Nations occupation. In addition, the party
ordered the expulsion or the confiscation of the property of even those members
or individuals who had retreated with the North Korean force if other members
of the family had collaborated with United Nations forces.
25X1 A i 2nt. The number of children and aged persons given in these
f gates seems unusually small for wartime conditions under which these
ersons are generally the only ones left in a city. Furthermore, the
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