Location: Hamhŭng (咸興市), South Hamgyŏng Province (咸鏡南道), North Korea

Subordinate to: 5th Machine Industry Bureau (第5機械産業總局), Second Economic Committee (第2經濟委員會) for chemical weapons production; and probably the Ministry of Chemical Industry (化學工業省) and the Ministry of Light Industry (輕工業省) for civilian production. [Note: The Ministry of Chemical Industry is responsible for chemical production, and the Ministry of Light Industry is responsible for textiles and paper production; therefore, both ministries probably have ultimate administrative control over some of the complexs production assets.]

Size: Annual production capacity of 540,000 tons of fertilizer, herbicides, and pesticides per year

Primary Function: Production of civilian products including ammonia, as well as chlorine-based pesticides, probably DDT, chlordane, among others; possible production of CW agents including blister, choking, nerve, and riot-control agents.

	Updated April 2003

Key Sources:
Kim Wŏn Pong, director of the Northeast Asia Research Institute (北東亞問題硏究所) in Japan, alleges that this facility produces CW agents. However, there is no open source information to substantiate these claims.
Key source: Kim Wŏn Pong, Kitachosenjimingun no zenbo (Tokyo: Ariadone Kikaku, 1996), p. 127; Kim Won-pong, Kitachosen jinmingun no zensho [sic] (Tokyo: Ariadone Kikaku, 1996), p. 127, in "DPRK Factories Suspected of Producing Chemical Agents," FBIS Document ID:KPP20010216000106; Osamu Eya, Kimu Jon Iru Daizukan (Tokyo: Shogakkan, 2000), pp. 64-65; Osamu Eya, Kimu Jon Iru Daizukan (Tokyo: Shogakkan, 2000), pp. 64-65, in "Alleged Locations of DPRK Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Warfare Facilities Mapped," 6 June 2001, FBIS Document ID: KPP20010606000075.