Pyongyang, August 4 (KCNA) -- The coal industrial sector in the DPRK has taken foresighted measures to prevent damage from natural disaster and put the production on a normal basis even in a rainy season.

Hundreds of preliminary coal faces have been secured, over 700 pumps and electric motors installed or repaired and reservoirs keeping tens of thousands of cubic meters of water built or repaired so far throughout the Ministry of Coal Industry.

Coal conveyance lines were repaired and pipe-laying conducted.

The Pukchang Area Youth Coal Mining Complex has taken measures to ensure production in abnormal weather, thus achieving practical successes. Coal mines in Tukjang and Sunchon areas have taken preliminary measures to ensure production in a rainy season.

The Kaechon Area Coal Mining Complex installed more pumps in coal faces to reinforce the drainage system and completed the readjustment of communication and power lines. -0-