Subordinate to: Air Defense Command Center (空軍司令部) and/or First Air Division (第1空軍師團), Korean People's Air Force (朝鮮人民軍空軍), 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 surface-to-air (SAM) missiles

Description: This facility has been identified as a "missile base." Reports might have led to confusion over the base's mission, but it is almost certainly a SAM facility for the air defense of Pyongyang.

	Updated April 2003

Key Sources:
Lee Yŏng Sŏp, "Pukhan'e Missile Kongjang 4 Kot Kiji 10 Kot Isang Itta," Hankook Ilbo, 26 March 1999, p. 2, in KINDS <http://www.kinds.com/ >; Kim Yŏng Shik, "Puk, Ch'oeso 4 Kos'ŭi Missile Kongjanggwa 10 Kos'ŭi Missile Kiji Unyong," Segye Ilbo, 26 March 1999, p. 2, in KINDS <http://www.kinds.com/ >; Ko Se Uk, "Puk Missile Kongjang 4 Kot-Kiji 10 Kot," Kukmin Ilbo, 26 March 1999, p. 1, in KINDS <http://www.kinds.com/ >; Lee Mi Suk, "Puk Missile Chejogongjang Ch'oesp 4 Kot Unyong," Munhwa Ilbo, 25 March 1999, p. 2, in KINDS <http://www.kinds.com/>; Federation of American Scientists, "North Korea Special Weapons Guide," <http://www.fas.org/ >; Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., The Armed Forces of North Korea (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2001).