38 North | DPRK Reference PortalLast updated: April 27, 2021 The Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory (순천린비료공장) is a large fertilizer factory inaugurated by Kim Jong Un on May 1, 2020, in Sunchon, South Phyongan Province. As of April 2021, it is unclear if the factory is in regular production. Activity at the site points toward production delays. Origins The Sunchon […]
Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) — The Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory has been built as a creation of our struggle to achieve prosperity by dint of self-reliance, another step forward in the grand march of all the people for opening up the new avenue of socialist construction true to the Party’s grand plan while braving severe […]
Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) — The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) released a detailed report Friday in connection with the wonderful construction of the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory. The scientists, technicians and builders of the country built the modern phosphatic fertilizer production base tantamount to establishing a new industrial field despite the vicious sanctions and […]
Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) — Premier Kim Jae Ryong, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and member of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, inspected the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory nearing completion and the Nampho Medical Appliances Factory. The officials, workers and builders of the […]
Pyongyang, April 7 (KCNA) — The Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory under construction has been landscaped on the eve of the completion. The builders have planted trees of good species with much care and manured and tended them in a scientific and technological way to suit the external environment of the modern factory. As a result, […]
Pyongyang, March 13 (KCNA) — Sci-tech achievements conducive to establishing the Korean-style phosphate fertilizer industry were made by research groups of various universities in the DPRK. Kim Il Sung University completed the research into processes for removing polluted gas and wastewater treatment of the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory to settle the issues that may have […]
Pyongyang, February 22 (KCNA) — The construction of the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory is progressing apace in the DPRK. More than 90 percent of the total construction work was carried out until February 21. The construction headquarters is properly carrying on the work to complete the equipment assembling for main production processes in close contact […]
Pyongyang, February 16 (KCNA) — Kim Jae Ryong, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, member of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, inspected various fields of the national economy. Making rounds of the Pukchang Thermal Power Complex, he appealed to […]
Pyongyang, February 10 (KCNA) — Amid the rapid progress in the project for building the Sunchon Phosphate Fertilizer Factory, a work for restoring apatite mines has been stepped up in the DPRK. Many waterlogged stopes and production processes were restored until the end of last year to lay a foundation for putting the production of […]
Pyongyang, February 5 (KCNA) — Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, inspected the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Factory under construction. At […]
