CHINESE COMMUNIST TRAFFIC CONTROL IN NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013200230010-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 25, 2002
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: August 8, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
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COUNTRY Korea/China/USSR
SUBJECT Chinese Communist Traffic Control in North
Korea
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1. On 1 May the Changchun office of the Chinese Communist army transportation
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3. A Soviet-controlled North Korean army special transportation corps was moving
monazite ore to the Soviet border once each week where the cargoes were consigned
to Soviet truck drivers for trans-shipment. Soviet personnel directing the
shipments were smuggling gold, opium, and wristwatches from North Korea into
the Soviet Union.
CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL .
SECURITY INFORMATION
corps controlled North Korean railroads north of Ch'ongjin (129-49, 41-47)
(EB-6826).. The Ch'ongjin office, under YANG Wi-song (2799/5898/2502), former
station master at Tumen, directed all railroad operations in eastern Korea.
Kanggye (126-36, 40-58) (BA-9837) was the principal western office.1 Chinese
railroad workers who speak Japanese and bad been employed by the Japanese-
South Manchuria Railroad Corporation were.being sent to northeastern Korea to
handle supervision and supply problems in that area
In May Chinese Communist army officials were controlling rail traffic between
Sinuiju and P'yongyanga2 Fifteen trains, each consisting of two locomotives
and twenty cars, travelling at 60 kilometers per hour north of Pyongyang and
30 kilometers per hour south of Pyongyang, were running between Sinuiju.and
P'yongyang each night. The locomotives had been constructed in China, and the
freight cars in China and the Soviet Union. During the day the locomotives
were concealed in a tunnel 3 kilometers long, 6 kilometers south of Taean-dong
(125-13, 40-09) (xE-8946), and a tunnel 4 kilometers long in Sakchu-onch'5n
(125-o4,.40-19) (xE-7665).
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4. On 10 May Chinese Communist and Soviet railroad inspectors were checking
all rail passeng~;rs travelling from Songhak (130-22, 42-33) (FC-1211) and
Ky?nghung (130-30, 12-35) (FC-2315) to Unggi (130-2l+,, 42-21) (FB-1589).
.Only Chinese Communist documentation or North Korean Ministry of Social
Security identification cards issued by the Namyang office were valid in
this area. Residents of villages near the North Korean-Manchurian-Soviet
border were restricted in travel.
1. [---],Comment.. Facilities in November 1951 at the rail accessories
p.an in Kanggye were reported in
2. Comment. In early November 1951 a Chinese Communist officer
ed tie'North Korean-Chinese Joint Railroad Goneral Headquarters
in Anju which coordinated Chinese Communist and North Korean rail
operations, according to l That report said ownership of
locomotives and freight cars determined the division of duties between
the Chinese Communists and North Koreans.
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