Choe Sok San, department director of the Ministry of Urban Management, told KCNA:

"The two-phase project covered scores-of-kilometer-long earth digging and pipeline laying and construction of pressurized pumping stations, seawater storage tank and reservoir.

The project made it possible to always supply the Pyongyang citizens with fresh drinking water."

Kim Tong Gun, department director of the Pyongyang City People's Committee, said:

"Leader Kim Jong Il initiated laying seawater pipeline between Nampho and Pyongyang in his lifetime, clearly indicating the tasks and ways to that effect.

The pipelined seawater will be used for disinfecting water, making kimchi (pickled vegetables) in winter season and producing essential foodstuff in Pyongyang.

The pipeline will also carry seawater to the Dolphin Aquarium now under construction on Rungna Islet in Taedong River flowing across the central part of Pyongyang."

Jong Ung, deputy curator of the Central Zoo, said the seawater supplied to the zoo's aquarium greatly helps breed rare sea fishes in a more desirable way.