Kŭmsŏng tractor factory

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Kŭmsŏng General Tractor Factory
legal form State company
founding before 1945
Seat Korea NorthNorth Korea Kŭmsŏng
Branch Agricultural engineering
As of June 28, 2016

The Kumsong General Tractor Factory or simplified Kumsong tractor factory is a company in the town of Kumsong. In addition to tractors, other agricultural technology ( planting machines , combine harvesters , etc.) is also produced for agriculture in North Korea . It is subordinate to the Ministry of Metal and Mechanical Engineering . The plant is located in Kangsŏ-gun County ( P'yŏngan-namdo Province ).

history

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The legal predecessor was a Japanese company that operated under the name Asahi here before 1945 and manufactured various products made of light metal . From 1946, they turned the chemical industry to and produced from sodium chloride , among others caustic soda and bleach . After the Korean War , the company operated under various names, from then on agricultural technology was also produced. Since 1956 the company name has been Pyongyang Farm Machine Factory, the construction of tractors then probably started in November 1958. From 1973 the name was Kumsong Tractor Factory, from 1985 it was named Kŭmsŏng General Tractor Factory.

Since then, the plants have established themselves as the country's largest producer of tractors. The main product is the Ch'ŏllima-2000 tractor . Up to 30,000 vehicles can be produced annually. According to the Korea expert Joseph S. Bermudez, rocket launch pads ("TEL") for cruise missiles are manufactured for the Korean People's Army . Kim Jong-il visited the factory facilities in January 2009 as part of his typical inspections.

A new vehicle was presented at a trade fair that took place in May 2016. Kim Jong-un described the new tractor as a great success for the tractor factories.

On December 7, 2017, a ceremony to launch new vehicle models, including the Chollima-804 tractor, was held in Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang . The power of the all-wheel tractor is given as 80 hp.

Web links

Commons : Tractors in North Korea  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hy-Sang Lee: North Korea: A Strange Socialist Fortress . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, ISBN 978-0-275-96917-2 , pp. 91 ( google.com [accessed October 1, 2015]).
  2. ↑ Kumsong tractor. In: Flickr - Photo Sharing! Retrieved October 1, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Kumsong tractor. In: Flickr - Photo Sharing! Retrieved October 1, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Rainer Dormels: Nampo - Port of Pyongyang - second largest city of the DPRK. (PDF) In: https://koreanologie.univie.ac.at . University of Vienna, Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, Institute for East Asian Studies, Koreanology, 2014, p. 8 , accessed on June 28, 2016 .
  5. ↑ - About. In: www.kpajournal.com. Retrieved October 1, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Kum Song Tractor Factory | NTI. Retrieved October 1, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Kim Jong Un Visits Machinery and Equipment Exhibition. In: North Korea Leadership Watch. May 14, 2016, archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on June 28, 2016 .
  8. ^ New-type Tractors, Trucks on Display before Being Sent to Agricultural Front. (No longer available online.) In: Rodong Sinmun . December 9, 2017, formerly in the original ; accessed December 10, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / rodong.rep.kp  
  9. ↑ Kim Jong Un Visits Kumsong Tractor Factory. In: KCNA . November 15, 2017. Retrieved December 10, 2017 .

Coordinates: 38 ° 54 ′ 44 ″  N , 125 ° 32 ′ 3 ″  E