Location: Haegŭmgang-ri (海金剛里), Kosŏng-kun (高城郡), Kangwŏn Province (江原道), North Korea
Subordinate to: Ministry of Extractive Industries (採取工業省), Cabinet (內閣)
Primary Function: Mining
Description: In 1964, North Korea reported that it had discovered approximately 4 million tons of uranium deposits in "Unggi-kun (웅기군)," North Hamgyŏng Province (咸鏡南道); Hamhŭng (咸興市), South Hamgyŏng Province (咸鏡南道); Haegŭmgang-ri (海金剛里), Kosŏng-kun (高城郡), Kangwŏn Province (江原道); Hamhŭng, Unggi, and Haegŭmgang. The current status of this mine is unknown. [Note: "Unggi-kun" is an old name for a section of what is now known as the "special administrative city of Nasŏn (羅先直轄市), which borders on Russia.]
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Updated April 2003 |
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Key Sources:
So Yong-ha, "Capacity for Nuclear Weapons Development," Hoguk, July 1989, pp. 119-122, in "North's Nuclear Capability Assessed," FBIS-EAS-89-148, 3 August 1989, pp. 23-26; Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., "North Korea's Nuclear Infrastructure," Jane's Intelligence Review, 1 February 1994, pp. 74-79; Osamu Eya, Kimu Jon Iru Daizukan (Tokyo: Shogakkan, 2000), pp. 64-65; Yu Min, "Pukhan Kip'okchekaebal Chipch'ak 70 Ch'arye P'okp'alshirhŏm/Russia Chŏngbu'ŭi Pukhaekp'yŏngganaeyong," Taehan Maeil, 5 January 1996, p. 6, in KINDS, <http://www.kinds.or.kr>.
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