Other names: P'yŏngsan Cruise Missile Base, Pyongsan Missile Base
Location: P'yŏngsan-kun (平山郡), North Hwanghae Province (黃海北道), North Korea
Subordinate to: Missile Division (미사일 師團), Ministry of the People's Armed Forces (人民武力省), National Defense Commission (國防委員會)
Primary Function: Deployment and launch of cruise missiles
Description: Eya Osamu, a Japanese journalist, quotes a North Korean defector named Ko Ch'ŏl Myŏng as having said there is a cruise missile base in P'yŏngsan-kun, North Hwanghae Province. However, Eya's report is unconfirmed, and South Korea's Ministry of Unification has no record of a North Korean defector named Ko Ch'ŏl Myŏng. Eya could have used a pseudonym for the defector, and it is possible that Eya's source confused this facility with the Scud missile base at T'ŏ'gol, Pyŏngsan-kun, North Hwanghae Province.
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Updated April 2003 |
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Key Sources:
Interview with South Korean Ministry of Unification official by Mari Sudo, research associate, Center for Nonproliferation Studies (via e-mail), 6 February 2002; Eya Osamu, Seimitsu: Sekaikikenchizu; Hanransuru Kitachosen (Tokyo: Tokuma Shoten, 1995), pp. 230-231.
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