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Thaechon Youth Power Station No. 4

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

   Pyongyang, January 29 (KCNA) -- The Thaechon Youth Power Station No. 4 has been built in Thaechon, North Phyongan Province of the DPRK, one more edifice of the era of the Workers' Party of Korea. Its construction was initiated in accordance with the far-reaching plan of President Kim Il Sung for erecting large hydro-power stations in the Thaechon area by the Juche-oriented unique method of developing water-power resources.
    True to the behests of the President, the people of North Phyongan Province successfully carried out the gigantic project in a few years with their own efforts and technology.
    At the final stage of the dam project, the dam was exposed to danger owing to the long-spell of rain. Then, the youth shock brigade members and working people of Nyongbyon County devotedly saved the dam from the torrential water by carrying earth-packed bags on their back, thus making a decisive breakthrough in the construction of the power station.
    The builders, with this spirit, excavated earth for the foundations of the generating room and the sluiceway in the biting cold water in the depth of the winter and ran some 40 kilometers a day to carry gravels, sand and concrete mixture.
    Workers of the machine-building plants in Rakwon, Kusong and other areas of the province manufactured facilities needed for the power station in time under manifold difficulties, thus contributing to completing the construction ahead of the set-time.
    The dam built across the broad Taeryong River, the large artificial lake, generating room and power distribution room are the fruition of the devoted efforts bent by the constructors to build the power station as a grand monumental edifice.
    In those days, "The River Taeryong Tells", the collection of works written by them has seen the light.
    The recent completion following to the Thaechon Youth Power Stations Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5 makes it possible to effectively use the water resources abundant in the north-western area of the country in producing electricity and supplying ample irrigation water to the west coast area.
    While looking round the Thaechon Youth Power Station No. 4 some time ago, Kim Jong Il highly appreciated the heroic feats performed by the constructors in building the great edifice which would shine long in history, saying that it was the spirit and mettle of Thaechon.