Heavy rain which pounded North Korea last week seriously damaged coal mines, power production and railway lines, the state news agency said Wednesday, in its second such report in three days.
Heavy rain which pounded
North
Korea
last week seriously damaged
coal mines, power production and railway lines, the state news agency said
Wednesday, in its second such report in three days.
The downpours from July 12 to 15 flooded dozens of pits in the west and washed
away hundreds of thousands of tons of stored coal, the agency said.
Bridges were destroyed and railways wrecked by landslides in Sunchon, Tokchon
and Pukchang, while production has halted at mines in the Hamnam and Chonnae complexes
since there is no power to pump out floodwater, it added.
The agency said Sunday that floods triggered by the torrential rain had washed
away homes, roads and farmland and caused unspecified casualties.
It said more than 20,000 hectares of farmland was destroyed or submerged
nationwide.
Earlier this month, state media said a tropical storm that hit the country in
June had caused casualties and left more than 150 homes and farmland destroyed
or submerged.
After decades of deforestation to create arable land or provide firewood, the
impoverished North is particularly vulnerable to flooding. In 2007 it reported
at least 600 dead or missing from devastating floods.
Earlier this year, the North appealed to the
U.S.
and
other countries for food aid but
Washington
hasn't yet announced its decision.
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