Nation out to clear flood damage
A
typhoon hit some areas of North Hamgyong Province between August 29 and
September 2, causing the worst-ever flood damage since Korea’s
liberation.
The
Workers’ Party of Korea, which sets it as its mode of existence,
revolutionary Party discipline to faithfully serve the people, has
switched the main thrust of the 200-day campaign to the battle to
reconstruct the northern afflicted areas and adopted a crucial measure
to mobilize the whole Party, the entire army and all the people to deal
with the emergency.
The
WPK Central Committee on September 10 ardently called on all Party
members, service personnel and people to relieve the severe flood damage
in a short time and work a new miracle of turning misfortune into
fortune by enlisting and concentrating all human, material and technical
potentials of the state on the front of the reconstruction in the
afflicted northern areas.
In hearty respond to it, all the service personnel and people throughout the country have turned out like one in the battle.
An
emergency meeting was held to take measures to reconstruct the
flood-hit areas and the central and field headquarters have been
organized comprising officials of the Party Central Committee, the
Cabinet, the State Planning Commission, ministries, national agencies,
and the province, forming a well-knit command system to push ahead with
the mammoth reconstruction project.
A
powerful construction force was dispatched to the front including
service personnel and shock brigade members who had been involved in
major construction projects for Ryomyong Street, Samjiyon area, Kosan
Combined Fruit Farm, livestock base in the Sepho area, waterway of South
Hwanghae Province, Chongchon River-Phyongnam irrigation gravity-fed
waterway, Wonsan area and others.
Military
units, shock brigades, national agencies and local units have mobilized
all their lorries, excavators, bulldozers and other road vehicles and
heavy construction machines in the battle sites.
Ministries
and national agencies, especially the Cabinet, the State Planning
Commission, the national emergency committee for relief efforts, the
ministries of Construction and Building-materials Industry,
Metallurgical Industry and Forestry, are now organizing works
scrupulously to supply relief materials preferentially.
The economic sectors have entered into a drive for increased production.
The
Sangwon Cement Complex, Sunchon Cement Complex, Kim Chaek Iron and
Steel Complex, Chollima Steel Complex, Songjin Steel Complex, February 8
Vinalon Complex, Ponghwa Chemical Factory, Chollima General
Building-materials Factory, Chollima Tile Factory, Pyongyang
Building-materials Factory, Taesong Ceramic Factory, Pyongyang Daily
Necessities Factory, Rangnang Disabled Soldiers’ Plastic Daily
Necessities Factory, Chongjin Plastic Pipe Factory and other units step
up the drive for increased production to ensure an emergency supply of
cement, steel materials, tiles, paints and other materials.
Workers
of all thermal and hydro power plants generate more electric power and
the Ministry of Electric Power Industry and power distribution stations
in North Hamgyong Province take measures to rapidly rebuild damaged
power transmission and supply networks and provide a steady supply of
power to the afflicted areas, railways and production units.
Thanks
to the efforts of engine drivers and other workers in the railway
transport sector, railway lines have been reconstructed in several
sections and a large amount of materials are being transported to the
flood-stricken areas every day.
The
design offices are focusing on completing the designs of dwelling
houses, nurseries, kindergartens, schools, hospitals, clinics and other
public buildings on the top level before anything else.
Officials are also working to bring normalcy to the afflicted areas.
Officials
of the North Hamgyong provincial Party committee, people’s committee
and people’s security bureau, city and county Party committees and
people’s committees visit the bereaved families to express sadness over
their death loss, and take immediate measures to provide the homeless
with lodging and boarding and supply food, drinking water, fuel and
firewood, bedclothes and other materials.
Health
institutions have dispatched medical groups to the areas to take proper
preventive medical and treatment measures among the residents and
rapidly supply them with necessary medicines.
Officials
of the ministries of Food Procurement and Administration, Commerce and
Light Industry and many other units are also working hard to responsibly
supply necessities to the victims.
Party
members and other working people in all units across the country
prepare and send food, medicines and clothes, materials and facilities
for reconstruction and funds with such sincerity as to help their own
parents and brothers and sisters.
Full
of infinite trust in and gratitude to the WPK which sets the
people-first principle as its immutable principle, the people in the
northern disaster-hit areas have risen up for the reconstruction,
overcoming trials and difficulties.
http://www.naenara.com.kp/en/order/pytimes/?page=Economy&no=22827
