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Kwangmyongsong Saltern on East Coast

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

   Pyongyang, October 24 (KCNA) -- The Korean people have wrought epoch-making miracles with an indomitable will, saying that he who says something is impossible is not speaking Korean. Among such miracles is the Kwangmyongsong Saltern on the east coast of the country which started production in October Juche 88 (1999).
    The ground-breaking ceremony of the saltern took place in 1996 when the people had to undergo grave hardships owing to the frantic anti-DPRK rackets launched by the U.S.-led imperialist allied forces.
    The situation was so serious, but the DPRK rose up and performed such a historical miracle on the east coast.
    People of South Hamgyong Province, overcoming many-fold difficulties, blasted two mountains whole and extracted more than three million cubic meters of earth and stones to build tens of kilometers of dam along the sea-shore.
    Also they removed reed roots in over 50 hectares of mud field and constructed waterways and setups with success.
    The Kwangmyongsong Saltern was followed by the construction of various salt farms on the east coast, bringing about a new change in the solution of salt problem in the country.
    In particular, the saltern, with an annual production capacity of tens of thousands of tons, is greatly contributing to the development of the country's chemical industry and the local industry and fully meeting the demand of the people for salt.
    The Korean people, with the firm will that when the Party is determined we can do anything, will certainly build a great prosperous powerful nation, working a miracle after another.