I'd like to now discuss the satellite images showing the recovery process. These images taken on October 25, 2016, focus on the hard-hit city of Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province.
Image of the flood damage along the river. Google Earth, 9/14/16.
Dyke reconstruction work. Google Earth, 10/25/16.
Reporting coming out of North Korea claim that over a kilometer of dykes has been fully repaired.
In this next image we see new housing being constructed.
Image source: Google Earth, 10/25/16.
This is the DPRK/China border crossing. It received only minor damage, but you can see repair efforts under way as well as trucks coming in from China with relief and construction supplies.
The repair of this border crossing comes after North Korea constructed a new border crossing in Rason (which will be the subject of my next post).
Image source: Google Earth, 10/25/16.
Annual floods cause a fair amount of destruction and death in North Korea, but the northern provinces are often the most badly hit. UNICEF sent aid (including $1 million from the US) to help children and families affected by last year's flood.
-- Jacob Bogle, 4/2/2017
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