NGA Tearline: North Korea’s Hydroelectric Power

The Paektusan Hero Youth Power Stations

North Korea’s northeastern provinces, especially Ryanggang Province, play an important role in the country’s hydropower development plans.

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North Korea’s northeastern provinces, especially Ryanggang Province, play an important role in the country’s hydropower development plans. The Paektusan power station project was designed to provide uninterrupted electrical power to this area, where the recently opened showcase city of Samjiyon is situated, to fuel its success.

GEOINT analysis shows concerted efforts to complete the Paektusan Hero Youth Power stations to provide power to Samjiyon City while older, underperforming dams in the northeastern provinces may be being repurposed.

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