The Japanese authorities are well advised to bear in mind that they will meet only destruction if they continue acting as running dogs of outside forces, bereft of even an iota of national pride. 80 per cent of the earth work has been carried out to form a waterway. They are simultaneously pushing ahead with the work to lay a dam foundation of a power station and the building of about 40 intake tunnels and other structures. This is the biggest project in the nation's history of irrigation construction as it is aimed to fill large and small reservoirs with water and thus irrigate nearly 100,000 hectares of farmland. When the project is completed, there will be no need to operate the 385 existing water pump stations and 536 water pumps and it will be possible to save 60,000 kw of electricity.
Projects are under way in various parts of the country to water cultivated land without pumping.
North Hwanghae Province is taking the lead in this drive. In the province at least 14,900 hectares of land are watered without using pumps. A switchover is also made in the irrigation method in the rural areas of north and south Phyongan provinces and south hwanghae province. The central western area of the country is planning to build an over 400 km-long waterway. This education will be put into force at the senior middle schools across the country from April 1.