Temperature of the hot spring, found near Chairman Kim Jong Il's birthplace in the Paektusan Secret Camp, is over 44 degrees centigrade and its amount of daily gush is hundreds of cubic meters.

The sodium bicarbonate spring containing iron is efficacious for nervous system disorders and digestive system diseases, hypertension, skin diseases, etc.

According to analysis data of experts, the newly-found hot spring can be used as a mineral water.

The discovery of hot spring opened up prospects for visitors to Kim Jong Il's birthplace in the Paektusan Secret Camp and inhabitants of Samjiyon City to use hot spring and mineral water.

And it serves as valuable prospecting data for clarifying the geological composition and history of the lava plain in the area of Mt Paektu, which remained unsolved in the geological world of the country.

The hot spring is another national treasure.