Location: Kangwŏn Province (江原道), North Korea [Note: Wangjaebong’s location is unknown, but sources say it is in Kangwŏn Province.]
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 5th Corps (5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 5th Corps (5軍團).]
Primary Function: Chemical weapons storage
Description: The site reportedly includes a chemical agent storage facility, another storage facility for CW-related equipment, and a support facility for combat units on the front line. This site is reportedly associated with the 5th Corps.
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Updated March 2003 |
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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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