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During the Eighth Party Congress in January, North Korea announced plans to build 50,000 modern apartment homes in Pyongyang by 2025. Construction began on the first 10,000 apartments toward this goal just two months later with a year-end deadline in mind. But while Kim Jong Un said the project will provide the citizens in Pyongyang […]
Daily NK
2021.05.07 11:00am
North Korea is conducting nationwide river redevelopment efforts to prevent floods. A source in the country said that the authorities have mobilized every available agency to excavate river bottoms. However, in areas where the availability of equipment is insufficient to do the job, human labor is being used instead.
“During the Eighth Party Congress held in January, ‘managing the mountains and waters’ was set as one of the country’s key projects,” a source told Daily NK during an Apr. 29 phone call. “It was decided during the congress that helping areas that had suffered damage from floods and typhoons in 2020 recover and reinforce [flood prevention infrastructure] needs to be prioritized above everything else.”
North Korea s budget increased at a lower rate for 2021 than last year at a session of the Supreme People s Assembly on Sunday, according to Seoul s unification ministry.