POSSIBLE ROMEO-CLASS ATTACK SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION SINPO SHIPYARD, NORTH KOREA (SANITIZED)

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• Publication Date: February 11, 1982
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POSSIBLE ROMEO-CLASS ATTACK SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION
SINPO SHIPYARD, NORTH KOREA
1. (S/D) SIGNIFICANCE: CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROMEO-CLASS ATTACK
SUBMARINE (SS) HAS POSSIBLY RESUMED AT THIS EAST COAST
SHIPYARD.
2. (S/D) REMARKS: AT LEAST 15 ROMEO-CLASS SUBMARINE COMPONENTS
AND TWO CONSTRUCTION JIGS WERE MOVED TO THE LARGE INCLINED
BUILDINGWAY SOUTH OF THE SUBMARINE CONSTRUCTION HALL BETWEEN
ALTHOUGH THE PLACEMENT OF
THE COMPONENTS COULD BE FOR REASONS OTHER THAN CONSTRUCTION,
THE ORDERLY ALIGNMENT OF THE OUTER HULL SECTIONS AND
COLLOCATION OF THE FABRICATION JIGS SUGGESTS STAGING FOR THE
INITIAL PHASES OF RENEWED SS CONSTRUCTION.
Attachment to Z-15169/82
NPIC/IEG (02/82)
11 FEBRUARY 1982
(S/D) ELEVEN ROMEO SS WERE CONSTRUCTED HERE BETWEEN 1974 AND
1979. ROMEO-CLASS SS COMPONENTS WERE NOT SEEN AT THIS
SHIPYARD FOR APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR FOLLOWING THE APPARENT
COMPLETION OF THE CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM IN EARLY 1979. IN
ADDITION, NO EVIDENCE OF VESSEL CONSTRUCTION OR LAUNCH FROM
THE SUBMARINE HALL HAS BEEN OBSERVED SINCE 1979. IMAGERY OF
MAY 1980 REVEALED AT LEAST 32 ROMEO SS COMPONENTS IN OPEN
STORAGE ON OR NEAR THE BUILDINGWAYS NORTH OF THE SUBMARINE
CONSTRUCTION HALL, AND SEVERAL FABRICATION JIGS-WERE IN THE
COMPONENT STORAGE AREA OF THE YARD. APPROXIMATELY ONE-HALF
OF THE COMPONENTS WERE MOVED TO AN OPEN AREA ADJACENT TO THE
NORTH BUILDINGWAYS IN AUGUST 1981 TO MAKE ROOM FOR
CONSTRUCTION OF THE SIN-A, A PROBABLE SUBMARINE CHASER (PCS)
SIMILAR TO THE TAECHONG-CLASS PCS: AT LEAST 17 COMPONENTS
REMAINED NORTH OF THE CONSTRUCTION HALL 25X1
3. (S)
COORDINATES 40-01-22N 128-09-56E
25X1
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