Post by Logan on May 11, 2016 6:51:35 GMT -6
SEOUL, May 10 (UPI) -- A power plant Kim Jong Un touted during the Seventh Party Congress may be leaking at various points due to shoddy construction.
Mount Paektu power plants Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in Yanggang Province are experiencing problems due to a nationwide policy that stressed the importance of speed over safety checks, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
The construction took place hastily in order to meet a deadline ahead of the congress, which opened Friday and closed Monday.
Kim's call for a "70-day battle," a mass mobilization movement that required ordinary North Koreans to volunteer free labor, has not had the results the state had expected, according to an unnamed source who provided satellite images of the power station.
Read more: www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/05/10/Dam-at-North-Korea-power-plant-partly-collapsed-source-says/4311462931805/?spt=mps&or=4
Mount Paektu power plants Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in Yanggang Province are experiencing problems due to a nationwide policy that stressed the importance of speed over safety checks, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported.
The construction took place hastily in order to meet a deadline ahead of the congress, which opened Friday and closed Monday.
Kim's call for a "70-day battle," a mass mobilization movement that required ordinary North Koreans to volunteer free labor, has not had the results the state had expected, according to an unnamed source who provided satellite images of the power station.
Read more: www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2016/05/10/Dam-at-North-Korea-power-plant-partly-collapsed-source-says/4311462931805/?spt=mps&or=4