{"id":53810,"date":"2023-01-19T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53810"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:16:06","slug":"pyongyang-starts-crafting-plans-to-deal-with-high-rise-water-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/pyongyang-starts-crafting-plans-to-deal-with-high-rise-water-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"Pyongyang starts crafting plans to deal with high-rise water outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea recently began crafting emergency measures to help residents of high-rise apartments in Pyongyang\u2019s Songsin and Songhwa neighborhoods who are suffering from water outages. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The high-rise apartments were completed last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a Daily NK source inside North Korea last Friday, the team managing the building of 10,000 new homes in Pyongyang&#8217;s Hwasong area received an order from higher-level managers on Jan. 2 calling on them to \u201ccome up with plans to resolve the water outages suffered at some of the homes, including the 80-story apartments in Songsin and Songhwa, by mobilizing the construction command staff of the Korean People\u2019s Army.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the managers currently handling the building of 10,000 new homes in Hwasong and construction command staff of the Korean People\u2019s Army were mobilized to find a solution because they have workers who previously took part in the construction of homes in Songin and Songhwa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>GOVERNMENT MOVES QUICKLY TO RESOLVE WATER OUTAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea pledged during the Eighth Party Congress in 2021 to build 50,000 new homes in Pyongyang by 2025 as part of the country\u2019s five-year economic plan, building 10,000 new homes a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country built 10,000 homes in Songsin and Songhwa as the first step of the initiative, completing construction and having new residents move in last year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Later, North Korea widely promoted the construction of the homes in Songsin and Songhwa as one of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s accomplishments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, after the authorities received reports of residents in the high-rise apartments suffering inconveniences due to wintertime water outages, the government has moved immediately to resolve the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK&#8217;s source said that at the Sixth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee held late last year, meeting attendees stressed that Kim Jong Un\u2019s home construction \u201cis a 1,000 year responsibility and a 10,000-year guarantee.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAccordingly, the military and Cabinet take the wintertime water outages at the newly built homes in Pyongyang very seriously,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said people in the high-rise apartments quietly complained that if the authorities cannot solve the water issue, it would be better to live in older low-rise apartments with running water to drink, no matter how good the views from the new high-rise apartments are.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This seems to have prompted the authorities to move quickly to preserve the residents\u2019 trust and faith in government-led construction projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PUMPS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT TO BE SHIPPED IN FROM ABROAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said the construction command staff of the Korean People\u2019s Army who are now taking part in building homes in Hwasong used their free time to hold an emergency meeting and visit the site of the 80-story apartments in Songsin and Songhwa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd they came up with a plan to supply water from above by installing a powerful electric motor and pump on the roof and immediately sent a list of the supplies they\u2019ll need up the chain of command,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trade management bureaus of North and South Pyongan Province and Sinuiju Customs House received orders for emergency imports of the motors, pumps and other supplies for high-rise apartments in Songsin, Songhwa, and Hwasong on Jan. 9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This means the authorities moved to import equipment to resolve water problems not just at the completed apartments in Songsin and Songhwa, but also the apartments currently under construction in Hwasong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trade management bureaus of North and South Pyongan Province have responded by beginning efforts to quickly import the requested items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20230113-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea recently began crafting emergency measures to help residents of high-rise apartments in Pyongyang\u2019s Songsin and Songhwa neighborhoods who are suffering from water outages. The high-rise apartments were completed last year. 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