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Kujang Uranium Mine (球場鑛山)

Location: Kujang-kun (球場郡), North P'yŏng'an Province (平安北道), North Korea

Subordinate to: Ministry of Extractive Industries (採取工業省), Cabinet (內閣)

Primary Function: Mining

Description: The Kujang mine reportedly produces uranium ore, but its current status is unknown.


	Updated April 2003

Key Sources:
Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., "Exposing North Korea's Nuclear Infrastructure-Part One," Jane's Intelligence Review, 1 February 1999, p. 38; Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., The Armed Forces of North Korea (New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2001) p. 218.

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