The downpour and heavy rain hit the west coastal area of the country, causing the landslide. It destroyed Joyang Coal Mine Station and Kaechon-Joyang railway section.

Downpour in Kaechon area destroyed the bank in the ravine north of Joyang Coal Mine Station, leaving stones and mud nearly three meters in thickness piled up in the 250 m-long area of the station.

It also left equipment and freight wagons around the station yard and the nearby area buried under silt or overturned and rails bent.

The dear respected Kim Jong Un acquainted himself in detail with the flood damage and issued an order to the Korean People's Army to finish the recovery operation in the shortest possible time.

In hearty response to the order of the Supreme Commander, KPA soldiers arrived at the spot through a forced march over the night. They started their operation at the dawn of August 7 before putting up tents. They made a breakthrough in the operation.

A high-pitched operation went on non-stop, which resulted in carrying out 50 percent of the total quota in the first day of the operation.

Generals and other commanding officers and soldiers worked hard to eradicate the aftermath.

Military families provided soldiers with meals. They joined the service personnel, encouraging them in their operation.

It was completed in a matter of just over 50 hours after the start of the work. They succeeded in clearing muck, leveling the low ground with at least 100,000 cubic meters of earth and sand and readjusting roadbed, putting the freight transport to normal.

Beautiful traits of the unity between service personnel and people were fully displayed in the work site.

Soldiers of the People's Army discussed measures to help people in their living despite huge tasks before them.

They visited flood-stricken families with relief materials and consoled them.

They, at the same time, rebuilt dykes in such a way that they would not be affected by another flood and pushed forward the work to face-lift railway station and its annexes.

People in the coal mine village and Kaechon City visited the soldiers with aid materials they prepared with sincerity.

A lot of goods sent to them by the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Construction and Building Materials Industry, the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Fisheries, the State Hydro-meteorological Administration and other ministries and national institutions and the Kaechon City Party Committee and other units.

The soldiers distributed them among coal miners and made efforts not to cause any slightest inconvenience to the people in the afflicted areas.

Thanks to this close unity between service personnel and people based on their warm feelings, bridges and culverts in the area of Joyang Coal Mine and Kaechon-Joyang railway section were successfully rehabilitated.