Subordinate to: Either the Third Machine Industry Bureau (第3機械工業局), which is also known as the "Third General Bureau" (第3總局) and as the "Electronic Automation Bureau" (電子自動化總局), or the Fourth Machine Industry Bureau (第4機械工業局), Second Economic Committee (第2經濟委員會), National Defense Commission (國防委員會)

Primary Function: The production of rockets and/or missiles

Description: The only known open source information on this facility appears to be from an interview with North Korean defector Kim Myŏng Ch'ŏl. Kim worked as a supervisor in the trade department of the Man'gyŏngdae Jewel Processing Factory, where he had experience traveling to China and Russia to procure components for weapons manufacturing. Kim says the Taep'yŏng Rocket Factory is underground in Taep'yŏng-dong, Man'gyŏngdae-kuyŏk, Pyongyang, but that he only had the opportunity to visit the shipping and receiving office, which is above ground. Kim claims there are only two "rocket factories" in Pyongyang, so this could be another name for a factory in the Pyongyang area that has one or more other names. Kim is unable to specify the types of rockets produced at this facility.

	Updated April 2003

Key Sources:
Interview with North Korean defector Kim Myŏng Ch'ŏl by Daniel A. Pinkston, senior research associate, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 14 December 2001, Seoul; Chŏng Ki Hae, "Kyŏngje'nan Bburi/Min'gan'gyŏngje Kalg'a'mŏngnŭn Kunsusan'ŏp (A! Pungnyŏk'tongp'o: 23)," Joongang Ilbo, 30 March 1995, p. 8, in KINDS, <http://www.kinds.or.kr/>.