Location: Sariwŏn (沙里院市), North Hwanghae Province (黃海北道), North Korea
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 815th Mechanized Unit (815機械化軍團) [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 815th Mechanized Unit (815機械化軍團).]
Size: One storage building, an underground storage facility, and 30 storage tanks
Primary Function: Chemical weapons storage
Description: This facility is one of the six chemical weapons storage sites in North Korea. The Sariwŏn storage site has been associated with the IV Corps, Korean People's Army. This site also has a training center for the handling of chemical weapons.
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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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