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Mining North Korea: Magnesite Production at the Taehung Youth Hero Mine

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게재일자 2019년 11월 19일
기관 CSIS
저자 Joseph S. Bermudez Jr. and Marie DuMond
키워드 #북한 광업   #광물   #태흥청년영웅광산
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주요내용 The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, more commonly known as North Korea) is a nation with immense non-ferrous and rare-earth mineral reserves.1 Among these is magnesite, which has been mined in commercially viable quantities since the Japanese colonial period. While the estimates of North Korean magnesite reserves has fluctuated dramatically over the past 15 years, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that North Korea has 2.3 billion metric tons of magnesite reserves and that its total 2018 mine production of magnesite was 270,000 metric tons.2 While this is a decline from the 380,000 metric ton estimate for 2017, due to international sanctions imposed during 2017, it remains both an important export and domestic commodity for North Korea.3 Among the nations that have purchased magnesite from North Korea during the past 10 years, China is the largest customer by a large margin. Foreign analysts, especially in South Korea, believe that China’s large long-term purchases of North Korean rare-earth and non-ferrous minerals, including magnesite, are a component of a strategy to lock out competitors and influence world market pricing.4
이전글, 다음글
다음글 U.S.-South Korea Cost-Sharing Negotiations Impacting Korean Public Support for U.S. Security Umbrella
이전글 Multi-Year Expansion of North Korea’s Yongbyon City
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