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Pyongyangites Are All out to Heal Flood-Damage

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

   Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- The Pyongyang citizens have turned out to heal the flood damage.
    The City People's Committee is directing primary attention to rehabilitating the destroyed dwelling houses and stabilizing the people's living in the afflicted areas.
    Great efforts are being made to restore the flood-stricken major objects such as facilities of production, power supply and communications and roads to the original state.
    In Pothonggang District, electricity is being supplied preferentially to the water pump stations to drain water in the submerged places including tens of institutions and industrial establishments in Unha area, the Pothonggang Pleasure Park, roads adjacent to Ponghwa Street. Fallen trees and silt are being removed.
    Phyongchon, Songyo, Sosong, Hyonjesan and other districts are rebuilding the destroyed dams and dealing with earth, sand and silt carried in by the flood and landslide.
    The Pyongyang Knitting Needle Factory, where 4,500 square meters of production buildings, more than 600 knitting needle facilities and transformers had been submerged, Pyongyang Children's Knitted Clothing Factory and other factories in the city are rebuilding destroyed walls and striving hard to put production on normal basis.
    The city is also taking measures to prevent promenades, pleasure parks and funfair facilities along the Taedong and Pothong rivers from possible damage.
    Officials in the ministries and national institutions are taking positive measures to heal the flood damage in various parts of the city including Panwol Islet.
    Officials in the City Rural Economy Committee, too, are directing the water-drainage work on the spot on flood-hit co-op farms in the suburbs of the city including Kangnam County and Rakrang and Sunan districts. They are also organizing in a scrupulous way the work to make the rice, bean and maize crops fallen by flood and wind stand and to sow vegetable seeds again.
    The flood damage is gradually healed in Pyongyang.