英文摘要 |
Regarding the economic development of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (hereafter: North Korea), discussions are continuous about the characteristics and causes of its economy stagnation as well as the real recovery after the hardest depression in the late 1990s. This includes the First Five-Years Economic Plan of North Korea (1957~61; ended in 1960 one year in advance) after post-Korean war recovery, in which early literature commonly acknowledge its accomplishment of the goals even though there are different opinions on the execution process. This paper focuses on the dynamics of the iron industry during this period. A phenomenon was observed: the sharp increase of production in some facilities of the iron industry that occurred in 1957 led to fluctuation in the amount of production and abrasion of equipments and eventually caused nonattainment of the upward revised goals of the plan. This sharp increase of production, far beyond the productive capacity of the equipment, meant the discontinuation of the country’s production basis inherited from the colonial period. On the background of this discontinuation, reduction of USSR’s economic aid for North Korea forced upper strata including KIM Il Sung to take policies for increasing production of the iron industry. |