“The state has demanded money from the residents [to build a purification system] to deal with the issue, but no one is paying,” a source in North Hamkyung Province told Daily NK on Thursday. “Despite this situation, the state isn’t doing anything to resolve the problem--only standing idly by." The stream is facing severe pollution from potassium cyanide, a highly toxic chemical used in the Changdu gold mine near Hoeryong, as reported by Daily NK on March 3rd.
The contaminated water produced from the mine is flowing into the stream without going through any purification process. After making no effort to install a filtering system for the chemicals at the mine, the state is now belatedly trying to force people into paying money for the construction of a water purification system. However, with no payments coming in the issue seems to have been abandoned.
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