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Whole Country Is out to Rehabilitate Flood Damage

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

   Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- A campaign for healing the flood damage is being dynamically launched in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    The Cabinet, ministries and national institutions set out on the rehabilitation work in provinces, cities and counties in a big way, paying primary attention to it.
    Ministries and national institutions including the State Planning Commission, Ministry of Construction and Building-materials Industry, Ministry of Metal Industry and Ministry of Light Industry preferentially supply cement, steel and other necessary materials to the work and push ahead with the work for stabilizing the living of the people in the flood-stricken areas at an early date.
    The Ministry of Food Procurement and Administration and the Ministry of Commerce provide food and essential foodstuffs to the people in the flood-hit areas ahead of others. Officials of the Ministry of Public Health, along with medical teams, have rushed to Munchon City and Yangdok, Koksan, Sinphyong, Chonnae counties and other areas, carrying a large quantity of medicines with them.
    The Ministry of Railways has concentrated efforts on rehabilitating the destroyed rail-roadbeds, railway bridges and communication facilities.
    The DPRK Red Cross Society handed over emergency relief goods including blankets, tents, kitchen utensils and water purifying pills to 16,000 families in the afflicted areas. More than 13,400 Red Cross volunteers have evacuated victims to safe places and are striving hard for the stabilization of their life.
    Servicepersons and people are also working day and night to heal the flood damage in various areas.
    In Pyongyang, efforts are being made to remove silts on the roads along the Taedong and Pothong rivers and rehabilitate others.
    The officials and working people in the flood-stricken Koksan, Sinphyong, Singye, Sohung and Yonsan counties of North Hwanghae Province, full of confidence, have turned out as one in the undertakings for rehabilitating the destroyed dwelling houses and public buildings and rearranging the flood-hit farm land.
    Those in South Phyongan, Kangwon, South Hwanghae and South Hamgyong provinces are engaged in repairing the destroyed roads and bridges while arranging fields which had been inundated.