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Damage from Flood under Rehabilitation

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, July 19 (KCNA) -- July and August are the rainy season in Korea but this year it has come earlier than usual. Heavy rains have hit some areas, causing tremendous losses in various sectors of the national economy of the DPRK.
    The water levels of rivers have risen and irrigation channels are flooding, inundating a large acreage under cultivation.
    Landslides have buried trunk lines and destroyed railway bridges, forcing trains to suspend normal operation. Motor roads and communication networks have been cut off in many sections.
    The hydro-meteorological observatories forecast that there will be much rain in the remaining wet season.
    A greater attention is being directed to the work for preventing possible natural calamities as well as projects for healing damage.
    The offices for directing damage rehabilitation in different parts of the country are conducting various activities such as arranging the temporary trains so as to send necessary manpower, equipments and materials to the afflicted areas.
    The Ministry of Railways has formed the direction offices in the flood-hit areas and preferentially provides large quantities of logs, rails and sleepers and other materials to the severely affected areas. Among them are the section between Yangdok Station in South Phyongan Province and Kowon Station in South Hamgyong Province and railway beds in Pukchang and Wonsan areas.
    Meteorological observatories are doing their best to diminish possible damage from heavy rains by establishing a mobile information system for rendering weather forecast of local areas.
    The officials and working people in the areas and units hit by heavy rains and floods are all out to do away with the damage, normalize production and stabilize people's livelihood.