Other Names: Sŏngch’on County BW (Biological Warfare) Facility
Location: Sŏngch’ŏn-kun (成川郡), South P’yŏng’an Province (平安南道), North Korea
Size: A large-scale underground facility
Subordinate to: Possibly 5th Machine Industry Bureau (第5機械總局), Second Economic Committee (第2經濟委員會), National Defense Commission (國防委員會)
Primary Function: Testing, research and development of biological warfare (BW) agents
Description: According to Kim Wŏn Pon, director of the "Northeast Asia Research Institute (北東亞問題硏究所)” in Japan, in the 1970s North Korea built a large-scale underground facility in Sŏngch’on-kun, South P’yŏng’an Province. Kim claims that the facility has been involved in BW agent tests on animals such as rabbits, rats and goats.
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Updated July 2003 |
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Key Sources:
Kim Wŏn Pong and Osamu Mitsuhuji, Saishin Chosenhanto Gunjijohono Zenbo (Tokyo: Kodansya, 2000) p. 52; Yi Son-ho, “North Korea’s Technology for the Development of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Its Ability,” Pukhan, November 1998, pp. 38-51, in “Monthly on DPRK Weapons of Mass Destructio (sic),” FBIS Document ID: FTS19981121000245.
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