Tŏkch'ŏn

덕천 Tŏkch'ŏn
Tŏkch'ŏn
Coordinates	39 ° 46 ′  N , 126 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 39 ° 46 ′  N , 126 ° 29 ′  E
Basic data
Country	North Korea
province	P'yŏngan-namdo
Residents	237,133 (2008)

Tŏkch'ŏn-shi ( 덕천 시 ; 德川 市 ) is a city in P'yŏngan-namdo Province in North Korea . It has 237,133 inhabitants (as of 2008), 112,373 of whom lived in urban regions.

history

In 2017, a North Korean ICBM hit the city in an accident.

economy

The Sungri Engine Factory (and workshops) has been one of the few domestic sources of low-cost replicas of foreign passenger cars and military trucks in North Korea since it was founded in 1950, and was made possible by Kim Il-sung's massive militarization campaigns in the 1970s and 80s.

However, the utter depletion of foreign credit by the late 1980s caused the manufacturing sector to implode. The supply of steel for metalworking in Sŭngri slowed to a minimum, and even when available, the production lines had regular blackouts. The severe famine in the countryside had also caused an exodus of starving peasants to the cities, adding further pressure to food supplies and labor productivity. In 1980, 20,000 cars and trucks were manufactured in T Autoskch'ŏn; in 1996 there were only 150, all of them army trucks, some of which were later modified as rocket artillery launchers.

Infrastructure

The city is connected to the rest of the country by a Korean State Railroad line.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2008 Census of Population of DPR Korea (PDF file; 1.4 MB), Central Bureau of Statistics (English).
2. ^ When a North Korean Missile Accidentally Hit a North Korean City | The diplomat. January 4, 2018, accessed March 15, 2020 .