North Korea's Kim praises army for rebuilding typhoon-hit area - KCNA

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North Korea's Kim praises army for rebuilding typhoon-hit area - KCNA

By Sangmi Cha

 

FILE PHOTO: North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un writes in Pyongyang, North Korea in this image released September 5, 2020 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency. KCNA via REUTERS

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un praised his military for its prompt efforts to rebuild towns hit hard by typhoons and summer floods, state news media KCNA reported on Tuesday.

 

Kim visited the province of North Hwanghae, south of Pyongyang, which had removed all traces of the natural disaster and been successfully re-built as a "socialist fairyland", said KCNA.

 

The visit was the latest by Kim to typhoon-hit areas of the country, issuing alerts ahead of the storms to prevent crop damage and casualties, then dispatching military and party members to help communities recover.

 

"The People's Army is made up of creators of all miracles on this land," Kim praised his army in a statement carried by the KCNA.

 

"The genuine might of the People's Army lies not in the number of troops and the might of ammunitions but in their ardent love for their country."

 

North Korea was hit by "disastrous meteorological phenomena" this summer with heavy rains and typhoons, bringing the second highest rainfall in the past 25 years, the weather agency had said on Monday in a statement carried by KCNA.

 

The country recorded an average 852.3 mm (34 inches) of summer precipitation throughout the country, more than triple the year earlier, KCNA said.

 

North Korea's agriculture sector is particularly vulnerable to severe weather, and this summer's storms and floods have raised concerns over the country's tenuous food situation.

 

(Reporting by Sangmi Cha; Editing by Lincoln Feast.)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-09-15

 

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[steven100]

15 minutes ago, webfact said:

"The genuine might of the People's Army lies not in the number of troops and the might of ammunitions but in their ardent love for their country."

They help the country rebuild the roads, bridges and other infrastructure damaged by storms. 

[grumpy 4680]

      From what I've seen, North Korea's army consists mainly of builders anyway, because that,s what they mainly do all year round, jobs for the boys, cheap labour.

[Burma Bill]

2 hours ago, grumpy 4680 said:

      From what I've seen, North Korea's army consists mainly of builders anyway, because that,s what they mainly do all year round, jobs for the boys, cheap labour.

Yes, this photo shows NK soldiers building a wall on farmland:-

 

[steven100]

16 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Yes, this photo shows NK soldiers building a wall on farmland:-

 

pretty tough existence day in day out,  but at least they aren't drug addicts on ice on the streets of Sydney stealing from society to feed their habit.