Kŭmho is a ''chigu'', or area, in
South Hamgyŏng province, near the city of
Sinp'o,
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
. Kŭmho was part of Sinp'o until 1995, when it was made a special area under the direct administration of the province.
In Kŭmho near Sinp'o in 1987 the building of
first national nuclear plant
A nuclear power plant (NPP) is a thermal power station in which the heat source is a nuclear reactor. As is typical of thermal power stations, heat is used to generate steam that drives a steam turbine connected to a generator that produces ele ...
was started by
USSR
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
but construction was cancelled in 1991 due to lack of funding and in 1993 then according to political reasons.
Then this place was the site of a planned two reactors development which was to have been built by the
Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization
The Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) was an organization founded on March 15, 1995, by the United States, South Korea, and Japan to implement the 1994 U.S.-North Korea Agreed Framework that froze North Korea's indigenou ...
(KEDO) with international support. Preparations and construction began in 1994 and 1997, but reactors was never completed. The last international workers were removed from the area in January 2006.
Administrative divisions
Kŭmho is divided into 1 ''
rodongjagu'' (workers' district) and 8 ''
ri'' (villages):
See also
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Administrative divisions of North Korea
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Geography of North Korea
North Korea is located in East Asia in the Northern half of Korea, partially on the Korean Peninsula. It borders three countries: China along the Yalu (Amnok) River, Russia along the Tumen River, and South Korea to the south.
Topography and dr ...
References
External links
News item from 1994 announcing the beginning of construction*
Districts of South Hamgyong
Nuclear power in North Korea
Unfinished nuclear reactors
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