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North Korean island vanishing as Pyongyang extracts sand and gravel for construction

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Daily NK reported that uninhabited islands in Pyongyang’s Taedong River have recently begun disappearing due to indiscriminate aggregate extraction. Satellite image analysis of the Turu Island area in Pyongyang’s Rangrang district has revealed changes large and small in the terrain over the last 40 years. Silting has created 20 hectares of new land, but flooding and aggregate extraction have led…

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November 06, 2025 at 08:19AM

by DailyNK(North Korean Media)

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