To help meet its electrical energy needs, North Korea has placed great emphasis on the use of hydropower. One strategy to improve this sector has been to shift focus from large-scale dams and hydropower plants to smaller ones, arranged in tiers.
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In the northeast, hydropower plants employ another strategy for improving hydroelectric power generation: the water supply that drives their turbines does not come from an adjacent source, but is received through a complex series of large reservoirs and a vast, integrated system of waterway tunnels.