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News Third North Korean hydro plant at Paekdu completeNorth Korean periodical claims the facilities are also generating power
North Korean laborers have completed the structure of the third hydro facility near Mt Paekdu, according to an article in monthly periodical Pictorial Korea. While footage showed the third part of the large scale hydro project was nearing completion in April, the Pictorial Korea article claims the facility was complete by late March, and inaugurated the following month. The facility is one of three hydro dams in the region, and caps off a project that even the North Korean article admits took over ten years to see through. “It was in October last year that units 1 and 2 © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |