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<DIV><FONT size=4>It may be worth mentioning here that some years ago North
Korea </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>published a substantial tome on Korea's geology:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><FONT color=#545454 face=Arial>Geology</FONT><SPAN
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Academy of Sciences</EM><SPAN
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1995).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Kind regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Aidan Foster-Carter</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 20/03/2014 07:17:07 GMT Standard Time,
ruediger.frank@univie.ac.at writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'">I should add that although I am
not aware of that particular article that Sem mentions, I am quite sure it
extensively quotes (or at least should do so) the classic on this topic,
written by a German geographer in 1945, who benefitted from the Axis alliance
with Japan and was able to travel the whole peninsula relatively freely. The
book has been translated into English: <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman'">Hermann Lautensach:
Korea: a geography based on the author!/s travels and literature. Translated
by Eckart and Katherine Dege. xvii, 598 pp. Berlin: Springer- Verlag,
1988<BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'">The German
original has been published in early 1945, so that the British and the
Americans could very well have been aware of the huge reserves of gold and
other minerals up North, especially since there haven't been too many books
around on Korea at that time (when German was not as exotic a language as it
is today, making the book easily accessible).<BR>Best,<BR>Rudiger
Frank<BR><BR><BR>on Donnerstag, 20. März 2014 at 02:45 you wrote:<BR><BR><A
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<TD width=1142><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'arial'">Dear
Bill,<BR><BR>You can find a very good discussion on what the West knew
about geological resources (mainly tungsten) in Chad Denton's "More
Valuable than Gold: Korean Tungsten and the Japanese War Economy, 1910
to 1945," <I>Seoul Journal of Korean Studies</I> 26:2
(2013).<BR><BR>Sem Vermeersch<BR>Associate
Director, <BR>International Center for Korean Studies<BR>Seoul
National University<BR>599 Gwanangno, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 151-742<BR>Tel.
+82-2-880-4038<BR><BR><BR>
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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 17:11:36 -0700<BR>From:
photografr7@yahoo.com<BR>To: koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com<BR>Subject:
[KS] Korean geology: What did we know and when did we know
it?<BR><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'times new roman'">Northern Korea
is rich in monazite, about 5.5% of which is thorium oxide and less than
1% uranium oxide. From what I understand, the majority of monazite is
located in the mountainous regions of North Korea, although the monazite
itself is most often mined in stream and river "placers" that flow from
those mountains. Since much of my information was obtained from pre-war
Japanese geologists, I'm wondering how much of this geological
information was available to the British and to the Americans during
WWII. <BR><BR>-- Bill
Streifer</SPAN></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>