WNAM REPORT: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has pledged to bring victims of recent heavy downpours to the capital city of Pyongyang to take care of them without outside help, state media said Saturday.
Kim made a two-day trip on Thursday and Friday to Uiju County in the northwestern province of North Pyongan to meet flood victims staying at a temporary shelter and offered support, the sources said.
He announced “an emergency system” to bring children, the elderly, disabled soldiers and mothers in North Pyongan, Jagang and Ryanggang provinces to Pyongyang to provide support over the next two to three months until reconstruction and repair of their homes are completed, saying about 15,400 people could be brought to the capital.
“Childcare, edification and education are the primary state affairs never to be given up in any emergency situation,” Kim was quoted as saying.
