Artificial Lake Paekma
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, October 6 (KCNA) -- Lake Paekma, an artificial one, has come into being in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Lake Paekma for the Paekma-Cholsan waterway is located at the foot of Mt. Paekma in Phihyon County, North Phyongan Province. Its source of water is the Samgyo River. It is the largest irrigation reservoir with a capacity of reserving hundreds of millions of cubic meters of water in the country.
The waterway with a gravity-fed irrigation system fully irrigates more than 40,000 hectares of cultivated land in six cities and counties including Ryongchon, Yomju and Cholsan counties and Sinuiju City of North Phyongan Province. The lake has the main, subsidiary and overflow dams and an intake structure. In particular, the overflow dam has been built in a unique form. The builders have done a huge amount of work and constructed the lake as a grand monumental edifice in the spirit of revolutionary optimism of going through the thorny path.
Leader Kim Jong Il named it Lake Paekma.
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