Location: Samsan-dong (三山洞), North Hwanghae Province (黃海北道), North Korea. [Note: Sources place this facility in "Samsan-dong," but the existence of this location in North Hwanghae Province is unconfirmed.]
Subordinate to: Maram and Chiha-ri Materials Corporations ( 마람･支下里資材商事), Department of Materials (機材部), the Nuclear Chemical Defense Bureau (核化學防衛局), General Staff Department (人民軍總參謀部), Ministry of People's Armed Forces (人民武力部), or possibly the Pyongyang Defense Division (平壤防衛師團). [Note: Kim Wŏn Pong, director of the Northeast Asia Research Institute (北東亞問題硏究所) in Japan, claims this facility is subordinate to the Pyongyang Defense Division.]
Size: Two partially buried storage facilities, two underground storage tanks, and two storage buildings or warehouses
Primary Function: Chemical weapons storage
Description: This site is reportedly linked with II Corps artillery units in the Korean People's Army.
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Key Sources:
Chang Chun Ik, Pukhan Haek-Missile Chŏnjaeng, (Seoul: Sŏmundang, 1999), pp. 365-366, 461; Kim Wŏn Pong, Kitachosenjimingun no zenbo (Tokyo: Ariadone Kikaku, 1996), p. 128; Kim Won-pong, Kitachosen jinmingun no zensho [sic] (Tokyo: Ariadone Kikaku, 1996), p. 128, in "DPRK Factories Suspected of Producing Chemical Agents," FBIS Document ID: KPP20010216000106; Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., The Armed Forces of North Korea (New York: I. B. Tauris Publishers, 2001) p. 228.
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