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Nampho
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Nampho, situated at the mouth of the Taedong River, is a modern port city
on the west coast. It began to develop into a modern port after
liberation in 1945. With the rapid increase in state investment, the
city's industries grew and it now has powerful heavy industries and
modern light industries. They include the Nampho Smelter Complex,
the Nampho Glass
Corporation, the Nampho
Shipbuilding Complex, the Nampho Fishery Complex and other central
and local factories. Nampho is playing an important role for
international trade. There are many piers and the shipping capacity is
37 times greater than in the pre-liberation days. Before liberation the
port could accommodate at most a 5,000-ton class ship, but now that the
West Sea Barrage has been built the port can harbor 50,000-ton class
ships. As a gate to the capital, the port has radically changed its
looks. Several streets, including Yurison Street, have been built and
the Waudo Pleasure Ground is an attractive place to visit.
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| Nampho,
Chongsan-ri
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Chongsan-ri in Kangso District, Nampho City, is widely known to the
Korean people, for the great leader Comrade Kim II Sung created the
Chongsan-ri spirit and Chongsan-ri method, the method of mass leadership
of the Workers' Party of Korea, there. The great leader visited
Chongsan-ri on February 5, Juche 49 (1960). He
had many visits to Chongsan-ri from long ago. But on that day he visited there again with a great
plan. In those days the socialist production relations held
undivided sway in Korea. This urgently required the improvement of the
work system of Party, state and economic organizations and
functionaries' methods and style of work on the basis of the new
circumstances with the purpose of powerfully mobilizing the broad
masses to the building of socialism. |
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The West Sea Barrage built by erecting an 8-km long sea wall has three
lock chambers which allow the passage of ships up to 50,000 tons and 36
sluices. The dyke is provided with a railway and a road. Thanks to the construction of the West Sea Barrage, considerable improvement
has been made in economic and cultural aspects. The large artificial
lake, which has been made by blocking the stream of the Taedong River,
supplies irrigation water to hundreds of thousand hectares of reclaimed
tideland and paddy fields along the west coast. Recently, a 132-km
waterway project which links the West Sea Barrage, Sinchon, Kangryong
and Ongjin and another waterway project in South Pyongan Province have
been completed. This means the formation of a loop irrigation system.
The construction of a large canal which passes through the Taedong and
Chaeryong Rivers and the formation of a loop network of railways and
motorways have helped to meet the increasing transport requirements. |
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Democratic People's Republic of Korea
