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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:More citations needed North Korea's defence industry predates the Korean War, but has emerged as a major supplier to the North Korean armed forces beginning in the 1970s,[1] but increasingly so after the fall of the Soviet Union and to supplement those purchased from China.[1] Most equipment produced are copies of Soviet and Chinese built military hardware.

Military factories

Tanks, arms, and missiles

  • First Machine Industry Bureau - supplier of machine guns, likely Type 62 Light Machine Gun and Type 73 Light Machine Gun[2]
  • Ryu Kyong-su Tank Factory - Sinhung South Hamgyong Province[3]
  • Second Machine Industry Bureau - Sŏngch'ŏn-kun, South Pyongan Province - builds Chonma-ho and Pokpung-ho MBT; likely Chuch'e-Po and Koksan artillery gun
  • Third Machine Industry Bureau: Multi-stage rockets
  • Fourth Machine Industry Bureau: Guided missiles
  • Fifth Machine Industry Bureau: Nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons
  • Tokhyon Munitions Plant[4]

Naval

Aircraft

There are no known indigenous aircraft built in North Korea, factories supply components or parts for current aircraft flown such as for Tumansky RD-9 turbojet engine used by Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 and Shenyang J-6.[6]

Another is additional sub systems for aircraft such as Tactical air navigation system that for example were known to be exported to Syria.[7]

  • Ch’onjin - small factory used to build spare parts and rebuild aircraft for the Air Force.[8]
  • Taechon - used to build spare parts and rebuild aircraft for the Air Force.[8]
  • Panghyon - North Korea's primary aircraft assembly, repair and research facility established in the mid-1980s.[9][10]
  • Seventh Machine Industry Bureau: Production and purchase of war planes

Space

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