Juche-Based System of Producing Iron

The DPRK has no deposits of coking coal so it has since long ago carried on research to produce iron by relying on its own materials and technology.

The Songjin Steel Complex has succeeded in developing a Juche-based system of making iron without using coking coal, by connecting the rotary furnace to the oxygen-blast furnace, thus effecting a turnaround in the country’s metallurgical industry.

It is an innovative system whereby the iron- and steel-making processes have been integrated to turn out steel without cooling molten iron throughout those processes.