{"id":40910,"date":"2019-06-04T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T08:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=40910"},"modified":"2020-01-17T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T00:21:25","slug":"north-koreas-salt-production-industry-facing-difficulties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-koreas-salt-production-industry-facing-difficulties\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s salt production industry facing difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40912\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40912\" style=\"width: 973px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40912\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/PYH2016052400990001300_P4-1.jpg\" alt=\"Kim Jong Un at Kwisong Saltern in 2016\" width=\"973\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/PYH2016052400990001300_P4-1.jpg 973w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/PYH2016052400990001300_P4-1-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/PYH2016052400990001300_P4-1-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/PYH2016052400990001300_P4-1-696x412.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/PYH2016052400990001300_P4-1-709x420.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim Jong Un at Kwisong Saltern in 2016. Image: Yonhap News Agency<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Shoddy construction at the saltworks in South Pyongan Province, one of North Korea&#8217;s largest, has meant that the facility has been undergoing continuous repairs instead of manufacturing salt, sources recently told Daily NK. Salt production is generally unaffected by the droughts that cause falls in grain product, but this year, North Korea appears likely to face difficulties in its salt production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOfficials at Namyang Saltern in Sukchon County have sounded the alarm,\u201d said a source in South Pyongan Province. \u201cShoddy construction has caused water in the retention basin to flow out of the facility, so it looks like this year\u2019s salt production will have difficulties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The issues are primarily due to substandard improvements made at Namyang Saltern which were conducted in 2017 and aimed at modernizing its facilities. The project was the responsibility of the Salt Industry Management Department within the Ministry of Chemical Industry. Retention basins store seawater and are considered critical for North Korea\u2019s saltworks because the country relies on sundried salt, and the capacity for these retention basins to store water alters the amount of salt accessible in a given year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaborers have been deployed to put the seawater back into the retention basin by hand and with pumps, but there\u2019s just not enough people,\u201d the source explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re heading into early summer, so there\u2019s no rain and the weather is dry. It\u2019s the perfect time for producing salt. The focus, however, is on cleaning up the mess,\u201d the source said. \u201cThe summer\u2019s torrential rains will soon be coming, so everyone\u2019s concerned about what to do about salt production.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Namyang Saltern is located on the west coast of North Korea and was upgraded as part of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s efforts to modernize the country\u2019s infrastructure. After the saltworks was modernized in 2017, then Premier Park Pong Ju visited the site in August 2018. Park ordered salt production to be increased by industrializing, integrating and mechanizing salt production with seawater and underground saltwater.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea only produces small volumes of salt, so the mineral is considered valuable. Salt refinement facilities in North Korea are in poor shape and refinement technology is outdated, so increasing salt production is challenging. Electricity supplies to the saltworks are also unreliable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSalt produced by the Namyang Saltern comprises a great deal of the overall salt production by North Korea. [The facility\u2019s troubles] will greatly impact the country\u2019s efforts to increase salt production,&#8221; a separate source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK.<\/p>\n<p>Kim Jong Un visited the Kwisong Saltern in 2016 and has encouraged further production several times over the years, emphasizing that &#8220;salt production is an important issue [to North Korea] and as important as food production. We can become self-sufficient [in salt production] if we are determined to do so [&#8230;] Salt is an important resource for industries in our country and we must guarantee its production by working to produce more of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoddy construction at the saltworks in South Pyongan Province, one of North Korea&#8217;s largest, has meant that the facility has been undergoing continuous repairs instead of manufacturing salt, sources recently told Daily NK. 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