Haegumgang Uranium Deposit
| Other Name: | 해금강우라늄매장지; Pakchon Nuclear Facility; Pakch'ŏn-kun Atomic Energy Research Institute |
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| Location: | Haegumgang-ri (해금강리), Kosong-kun (고성군), Kangwon Province (강원도), North Korea |
| Subordinate To: | Ministry of Extractive Industries (채취공업성), Cabinet (내각) |
| Size: | Reportedly approximately 4 million tons of uranium deposits |
| Facility Status: | Unknown |
In 1964, North Korea reported that it had discovered approximately 4 million tons of deposits in "Unggi-kun (웅기군)," North Hamgyŏng Province (함경북도); Hamhŭng (함흥시), South Hamgyŏng Province (함경남도); Haegŭmgang-ri (해금강리), Kosŏng-kun (고성군), Kangwŏn Province (강원도); Hamhŭng, Unggi, and Haegŭmgang. The current status of this mine is unknown. [Note: "Unggi-kun" is an old name for a section of what is now known as the "special administrative city of Nasŏn (나선직할시), which borders on Russia.]
Sources:
[1] So Yong-ha, "Capacity for Nuclear Weapons Development," Hoguk, July 1989, pp. 119-122, in "North's Nuclear Capability Assessed," FBIS-EAS-89-148, 3 August 1989, pp. 23-26.
[2] Joseph S. Bermudez, Jr., "North Korea's Nuclear Infrastructure," Jane's Intelligence Review, 1 February 1994, pp. 74-79.
[3] Osamu Eya, Kimu Jon Iru Daizukan (Tokyo: Shogakkan, 2000), pp. 64-65.
[4] Yu Min, "Pukhan Kip'okchekaebal Chipch'ak 70 Ch'arye P'okp'alshirhŏm/Russia Chŏngbu'ŭi Pukhaekp'yŏngganaeyong," Taehan Maeil, 5 January 1996, p. 6, in KINDS, www.kinds.or.kr.
This material is produced independently for NTI by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of and has not been independently verified by NTI or its directors, officers, employees, or agents. Copyright © 2011 by MIIS.
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