Pyongyang, May 23 (KCNA) -- All sectors and units in Pyongyang and local areas of the DPRK are conducting a dynamic campaign to cope with the disastrous abnormal weather.
The State Emergency Disaster Committee has taken measures to minimize damage caused by disastrous abnormal weather by mobilizing all human, material and technical potentials.
It is operating the system of emergency information of natural disaster on a regular basis, while working out and sending the detailed command system, emergency work system, order of action and other enforcement regulations for disaster prevention, rescue and recovery in order to swiftly cope with the national emergency crisis.
The agricultural sector has pushed ahead with the work to protect crops from drought, typhoon and flood.
The electric power industry sector has inspected transformation equipment, dam structures and protective devices, worked out a plan for obviating imperfection and took security measures.
The fields of land and environment protection, urban management and the railway transport sector have investigated the safety of anti-land-sliding structures and pushed ahead with the projects for preventing damage from natural disasters.
Meanwhile the hydro-meteorological field has conducted the work to correctly forecast the abnormal weather phenomena and perfected the system for rapidly informing the relevant units of necessary information. -0-
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