Agriculture: North Korea commissions Paekma-Cholsan Waterway

The Korean Central News Agency Of DPRK, reports that the Paekma-Cholsan Waterway has now been commissioned.

Quote: "The more than 270 km-long waterway is a monumental edifice that appeared in the Songun era in accordance with the plan of leader Kim Jong Il for grand nature-remaking. It is a huge modern gravity-fed irrigation system for supplying tens of thousands of jongmi of water (one jongmi is approximately 10,000 cubic meters) from Lake Paekma to a vast area of cultivated land in six cities and counties including Ryongchon, Yomju and Cholsan counties and Sinuiju City of North Phyongan Province".

Pak Yong Sok, chairman of the Central Control Commission of the WPK, said that the waterway is a grand monumental edifice which would convey down to posterity the undying leadership feats of Kim Jong Il who has brought about eye-opening changes in the country by wisely leading the gigantic nature-harnessing projects in the era of Songun.

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