Sup'ung Dam

The Supung Dam ( also Sup'ung, Shuifeng, Sui -ho) in Sinuiju on the Yalu River is on the border between China and North Korea.

The building was in 1941, when Korea was a province of Japan, and began at that time was the fourth highest dam of the earth.

The dam is a 160 m high and 853 m long concrete gravity dam. It is 18 m wide at the base and 97 m at the crown. The reservoir has a capacity of 14,670 million cubic meters ( 20,000 m³ also be specified). The area of the reservoir is given as 274 or 284.5 km ².

The hydropower plant has six turbines with 100 MW. It supplies a large part of North Korea and the regions Lüshunkou (Port Arthur) and Dairen in Northeast China with energy.

On June 23, 1952, the dam was together with three other dams attacked in the Korean War by the Americans and partially destroyed. She had come up to that 90 % of North Korea's power, and therefore the power of North Korea was paralyzed for two weeks.