{"id":44178,"date":"2020-03-19T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=44178"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:17:19","slug":"north-korea-ramps-up-steel-production-weapons-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-ramps-up-steel-production-weapons-development\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea ramps up steel production for weapons development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea\u2019s recent emphasis on increasing production at its metalwork factories is aimed at producing steel for weapons development, with a view to sell these weapons abroad for foreign currency, Daily NK sources have reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEighty percent of the steel produced will be used to create weapons,\u201d a high-ranking government source told Daily NK on Monday. \u201cThey\u2019ll send the steel to the weapons factories, which will either use the steel to produce conventional weapons or weapons for asymmetric warfare.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The asymmetrical weapons the source mentioned refers to newly developed weapons such as the large multiple rocket artillery system recently tested by the country.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-march-2-involved-newly-developed-rocket-artillery-systems\/\">previously reported<\/a> that North Korea\u2019s 600mm multiple rocket artillery system had the ability to launch lightweight rockets, and that North Korea was attempting to mass produce these weapons for deployment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to sources in the country, North Korean authorities believe that with weapons factories working at full capacity, it will be possible to produce and deploy the newly developed weapons within the year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">RAMPING UP STEEL PRODUCTION<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Monday, Rodong Sinmun reported that the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex was moving forward in earnest with the installation of oxygen separators, with the aim of increasing the production of \u201cjuche steel.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/model-kim-chaek-complex-in-dire-st\/\">Juche steel<\/a> is so named because it is made with domestic coal, not imported coke and energy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the article, the factory workers had embraced the Workers&#8217; Party of Korea&#8217;s mission of making this year the year of the metalwork industry and were energetically tackled the construction project to finish it as quickly as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMost factories are focusing on renovating their facilities to modernize their production,\u201d said a source. \u201cThis includes the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, as well as the Songjin, Kangson and Hwanghae steel plants.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodong Sinmun also reported that the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex was currently building a cooler, a steel structure, and pipes for an oxygen compressor, and that the <\/span>Chonjin Metal Construction Company <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was currently constructing a separation column several meters high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">STEEL FACTORIES STILL FACE DIFFICULTIES<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Daily NK sources, North Korean authorities have ordered an increase in production of steel before the 75th anniversary of the WPK on Oct. 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRight now all the factories are competing with each other to produce the most steel,\u201d the high-level government source said. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe North Korean authorities keep emphasizing a revolutionary leap in the metalwork industry, and this has to do with increasing weapons production and exporting weapons.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, not of the weapons made with the new steel will be used by the North Korea because &#8220;some will be sold abroad to bring in foreign capital,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Poor logistics surrounding the transport of raw materials and steel has set back production of the steel at all of the metalworks factories, sources in the country cautioned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe conveyor belts are barely working, making things difficult,\u201d one source said. \u201cThere are quite a few places where the facilities need to be revamped, and it\u2019s difficult because they are trying to manufacture metal but also renovate their facilities at the same time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-<\/i><em>media.net.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%E5%8C%97-%EA%B8%B0%EB%B3%B8-%EA%B3%BC%EC%A0%9C%EB%9F%89-%EC%99%B8-%EB%AC%B4%EA%B8%B0-%EC%A0%9C%EC%A1%B0-%EC%9C%84%ED%95%9C-%EC%B2%A0%EA%B0%95%EC%9E%AC-%EC%B6%94%EA%B0%80-%EC%83%9D%EC%82%B0\/\"><em>Read in\u00a0Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea\u2019s recent emphasis on increasing production at its metalwork factories is aimed at producing steel for weapons development, with a view to sell these weapons abroad for foreign currency, Daily NK sources have reported.\u00a0 \u201cEighty percent of the steel produced will be used to create weapons,\u201d a high-ranking government source told Daily NK on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":44191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,645],"tags":[691,839,886],"class_list":["post-44178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-economy","tag-military","tag-weapons","tag-manufacturing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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