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THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF NORTH KOREA
Toen Trading Co. of Japan purchased 12 decommissioned
Russian submarines for scrap at a shipyard in North Korea's port of Najin. Labor costs in North Korea were relatively low. Each submarine would yield approximately 2,000 metric tons of ferrous scrap and was to be sold to China, Japan, and the United States[4]
[4] - American Metal Market, Mar. 4, 1994, p. 11.
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THE DAILY JAPAN DIGEST
Friday January 21, 1994
MITI Probes Toen Trading Role in Sale of Russian Subs To Pyongyang
The Japanese government is investigating whether Toen Trading broke the law by facilitating a sale of decommissioned Russian Foxtrot-class diesel-electric submarines to North Korea, allegedly as spares. The
New York Times alleged the transaction had involved 40 submarines and questioned the usefulness of the submarines as spares to North Korea's existing fleet. Russian officials claimed they had only sold 12 submarines, only one of which had been delivered, whilst the Times report claimed that 11 had already been delivered.
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Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
No. 14, 21 January 1994
UPDATE ON RUSSIAN SUB SALE TO DPRK.
The New York Times reported on 20 January that North Korea has used a small Japanese trading company to
purchase secretly forty aging submarines from the Russian Pacific Fleet.
The number of subs involved, which is considerably higher than earlier estimates, has puzzled experts monitoring the situation; some have suggested that North Korea may hope to rebuild them to augment its own fleet or to cannibalize them for spare parts. Russian officials have insisted that the vessels are being sold solely as scrap metal. The US government is reportedly pressing Moscow for an explanation. The New York Times quoted the president of the Japanese company involved (Toen Trading Co.) as saying that the vessels, most of them believed to be Foxtrot class
diesel submarines, were being towed intact from Russian naval bases in Vladivostok to the nearby North Korean port of Najin. Experts have pointed to the possibility that close ties still exist between formerly allied Russian and North Korean military commanders, and have suggested that Pacific Fleet commanders may be acting on their own initiative.
Stephen Foye, RFE/RL, Inc.