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Yesterday KCNA reported about the very latest news after the heavy flood disaster early this month in N.K.:

Tremendous Flood Damage in DPRK

(☞ 사망,행방불명 600여명-큰물피해 90여만명)

The continuous torrential rain that hit all parts of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea from August 7 caused great manpower and material losses.

- Heavy rains registering more than 500-800 mm struck at least 150 cities and counties, claiming big casualties and losses in properties and doing serious damage to all the sectors of the national economy.

- According to the information available from the Central Statistics Bureau, torrential rain, strong wind and landslide left at least 600 people dead or missing and thousands of people wounded.

- Flood hit all parts of the country including Pyongyang city, North and South Hwanghae, Kangwon, South Phyongan and South Hamgyong Provinces, leaving dwelling houses for at least 240,000 families totally or partially destroyed or inundated. This left at least 100,000 people homeless and some 900,000 people flood-stricken.

- More than 8,000 public buildings, schools, thousands of health service institutions and nurseries were totally or partially destroyed in heavy rain, stopping their operation.

- More than 1,000 major production buildings of the country covering at least 200,000 square meters including the Komdok Mining Complex and the Taean Heavy Machine Complex were totally or partially destroyed or submerged, laying great obstacles in production.

- Torrential rain struck hard the agricultural field, making it hard to harvest crops as expected in some 200,000 hectares of arable lands.

- In particular, lots of arable lands were washed away, buried under silt or inundated in North and South Hwanghae, South Phyongan and Kangwon Provinces.

- The flood hit hard the power, coal and ore mining sectors.

- Dozens of transformer substations were submerged, over 800 electric poles collapsed and dam structures and generating facilities in Pujongang, Thongchon and other hydraulic power stations were destroyed or came under water.

- Nearly 300 pits and cutting faces and more than 170 mining faces were submerged in 90 odd coal mines in Tokchon, Pukchang, Chonnae and other areas and hundreds of thousands of tons of coal were washed away.

- Lots of pits and mining faces at Unpha, Yonphung and other mines came under water, bringing production to a halt.

- The flood also struck hard railways and other means of transport and city management.

- Some 100 sections of rail-roadbeds covering more than 78,000 cubic meters were destroyed, four tunnels inundated and more than 60 sections of retaining walls were collapsed and at least 200 sections of railroads were buried under some 62,400 cubic meters of earth due to landslide, thus suspending the operation in major sections of the railroad.

- The flood destroyed major roads and tourist roads extending some 600 km in at least 2,000 sections in Pyongyang-Kaesong motorway, Pyongyang-Wonsan tourist motorway and others and some 2,200 sections of bridges.

- More than 100 pumping stations for water supply, rainwater and sewage facilities were submerged to stop the supply of drinking water.

- The flood left at least 2,000 hectares of salterns inundated. It did serious damage to other fields of the national economy.

- The unusual heavy rain caused huge material losses to the DPRK, creating unprecedented difficulties in people's living and economic construction.

- The army and people of the DPRK are now turning out as one to recover from the damage with persevering will.

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2007/200708/news08/27.htm#1

☞ Restoration Work with Bare Hands (DailyNK, 8.28)

(North) Korean Central TV, daily "news", 8.18

Surprisingly(^^) the..

..Performance of "Arirang" (is) Suspended (according to today's KCNA)

The grand gymnastic and artistic performance "Arirang" which was resumed on August 1 was suspended for the time being due to the unexpected torrential rain and flood damage.
It has now become hard to continue the performance as working people in different parts of the country are all out to recover from the flood damage these days.
The performance is expected to be staged again after the flood damage is cleared away.

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2007/200708/news08/28.htm#2