Other names: The 118 Factory, 1.18 Machinery Factory, the 18 January Machine Plant, January 18th Factory, Kagam-ri No. 118 Factory, Kakamni No. 118 Factory, Kag'am Plant, Kaech'ŏn Scud Factory, Kaech'ŏn Missile Factory

Location: Kag'am-dong (角岩洞), Kaech'ŏn (价川市), South P'yŏng'an Province (平安南道), North Korea, near the city of Sunch'ŏn (順川市)

Subordinate to: Second Economic Committee (第2經濟委員會), National Defense Commission (國防委員會)

Size: A former worker at the factory reportedly said the facility is "so extensive that you can't see all of it if you walked around it all day."

Primary Function: The production of Scud missile engines, and possibly missiles, tanks and motors

Description: According to a source in the South Korean military, this factory produces Scud missile engines. Han Tŏk Su, former chairman of the pro-North Korean General Federation of Korean Residents in Japan (Choch'ongnyŏn), reportedly visited the January 18th Machine Factory in April 1987. His guide told him the facility had been built under an apartment complex, and that very few people living in Kaech'ŏn knew about the factory. Han was also told that the factory mainly produced missiles, tanks and motors. According to the South Korean Ministry of Unification, this factory produces rocket engines.

	Updated May 2003

Key Sources:
"Sunch'ŏn.Kaech'ŏn'e Missile Kongjang," Joongang Ilbo, 10 January 2000, <http://www.joins.com >; Kim In Ch'ŏl, "Chŏn Kim Il Sŏng T'ong'yŏkkwan'gyŏm Kowiwoe'gyo'gwan/Ko Yŏng Hwannŭn Malhanda: 6," Taehan Maeil, 9 October 1991, p. 5, in KINDS, <http://www.kinds.or.kr >; Seoul Shinmun (Taehan Maeil), 9 October 1991, p. 5, in "Defector on North's Nuclear Development," FBIS JPRS-TND-91-017, 7 November 1991, pp. 8-9; "N. Korea Goes Underground with Nuclear Plants," Washington Times, 25 October 1991, p. A11, in Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, <http://www.lexis-nexis.com>; "Pukhan'ŭi Missile Kaebal Kunsa," Tongil News, 27 February 2001, <http://www.tongilnews.com>.