{"id":38404,"date":"2018-11-09T14:43:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T05:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=38404"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:22:22","slug":"senior-manager-at-songjin-steel-complex-banished-to-musan-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/senior-manager-at-songjin-steel-complex-banished-to-musan-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior manager at Songjin Steel Complex banished to Musan Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38407\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc81c\ucca0\uc18c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38407\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc81c\ucca0\uc18c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc81c\ucca0\uc18c.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc81c\ucca0\uc18c-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc81c\ucca0\uc18c-768x426.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc81c\ucca0\uc18c-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/\ubd81\ud55c-\uc81c\ucca0\uc18c-757x420.jpg 757w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean steel mill workers. Image: Rodong Sinmun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The head of engineering at Songjin Steel Complex in Kimchaek, North Hamgyong Province, has been stripped of his position and sent with his family to another region of the province after being accused of allowing the prestigious enterprise to fail to meet state-set production goals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe head of the Engineering Development Department for Songjin Steel Complex, a Mr. Kim in his 50s, was removed from his position by the enterprise\u2019s provincial Workers&#8217; Party of Korea (WPK) Committee. He is now working as a laborer in the Musan Mine,\u201d said a North Hamgyong Province-based source on November 6. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe enterprise\u2019s failure to implement any new, North Korean-style engineering innovations resulted in the enterprise failing to meet its steel production quotas for the past three years, and the responsibility for this failure ultimately fell on the head of the department.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kim graduated from Kimchaek University of Technology before working in North Korea\u2019s biggest steelworks, the Kimchaek Iron &amp; Steelworks, as a field engineer in the development production team during the widespread famine of the 1990s. He was a highly-regarded engineer who had even received state honors for several successful projects, reported the source. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimately, however, Kim did not have the connections needed to avoid being completely blamed for the enterprise failing to meet its quotas and was expelled with his family. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The head manager of the Songjin Steel Complex had, at one point, met directly with the Supreme Leader (Kim Jong Un), which made it difficult for the Party Committee to take action against him. Lower-level managers were deemed by the committee to have had \u201cno direction connection with the management of production,&#8221; a separate source in North Hamgyong Province reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, he said, the head of the Engineering Department, one of the enterprise\u2019s executive management officers, avoided blame because he had also met with the Supreme Leader. The head of the Production Department also avoided blame because his son had graduated from the Chakwangsoo Military Aviation Academy and is currently a fighter pilot in the North Korean Air Force\u2019s Kaechon 1st Division. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cKim\u2019s friends and colleagues in the enterprise have expressed frustration that such a talented engineer has been pushed out unfairly,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The reason for Songjin Steel Complex being unable to meet its state-set quotas is likely due to recent interruptions in the operation of the Musan Mine arising from international sanctions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Musan Mine, which has major deposits of iron ore, has long supplied raw materials to steel producers, including Songjin Steel Complex. The enterprise is tasked with producing steel wire and pig iron using the ore from the mine and supplying the products to the domestic machinery and military sectors or selling them to Chinese companies to earn foreign currency. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Songjin Steel Complex&#8217;s productivity has very likely been interrupted by the shutdown of Musan Mine, suggesting that the North Korean authorities may have sought to shift the blame to one of Songjin Enterprise\u2019s high-level managers for failing to meet state-set production quotas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK previously reported through a number of North Korean sources that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/musan-mine-on-the-verge-of-total-shutdown-sources-say\/\">Musan Mine is not operating normally<\/a>, causing severe difficulties for local Musan residents who rely on the mine for their livelihoods. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of engineering at Songjin Steel Complex in Kimchaek, North Hamgyong Province, has been stripped of his position and sent with his family to another region of the province after being accused of allowing the prestigious enterprise to fail to meet state-set production goals. \u201cThe head of the Engineering Development Department for Songjin Steel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":38407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - 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