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Rehabilitation of Ryongchon Progresses Apace

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 24 (KCNA) -- One month has passed since the wagon explosion at Ryongchon Railway Station in North Phyongan Province, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The afflicted area is now successfully undergoing reconstruction. All the people of Ryongchon County have turned out in the reconstruction, replacing their sorrow with strength and courage, and a large number of people have come to the damaged area from throughout the country to help the victims.
    They removed the destroyed houses and public buildings within several days.
    All the projects such as construction of public buildings, dwelling houses and water supply and sewerage and streets are being accelerated simultaneously in accordance with the completed designs.
    Servicepersons and builders are working day and night for the reconstruction of the county.
    As of May 22, they have carried out more than 80 per cent of the groundwork for dwelling houses for 1,650 families and more than 30 percent of ground concrete tamping.
    Two dwelling houses have already come into shape as demonstration ones. The projects for erecting walls of the most severely hit primary school and college are also progressing rapidly.
    Meanwhile, the projects for repairing buildings are also pushed ahead. The constructors are now overfulfilling their daily quotas by 20 percent with a target to finish the repair of houses for 1,580 families within one or two months.
    Vice-Premier Ro Tu Chol, chief of the Central Headquarters for the Reconstruction of the Afflicted Area in Ryongchon, told KCNA that though everything was needed, the builders would make every effort to finish all the projects in a short span of time, thus living up to the expectation of the people across the country and of overseas Koreans and foreign friends who had rendered sincere assistance to the victims.