The city has mobilized 43,000 soldiers, civil servants and residents to fight the floods.

The Tumen River, also bordering the DPRK, in neighboring Jilin province, has also seen record water levels in the past two weeks,

The Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture, which borders the DPRK by the Tumen River and is home to a large ethnic Korean population, has suffered the worst floods in a hundred years this year, with nearly a quarter of its 2.18 million residents affected, according to the Yanbian government.

In Yanbian, torrential rains and floods had destroyed 6,847 houses and forced the evacuation of more than 86,000 people, the prefecture government said Wednesday.

At least 74 people have died in heavy flooding in Jilin over the past two months, and 71 are missing.

As of Wednesday, rain-triggered floods had left 1,072 people dead and 619 missing this year in the whole country, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.

Editor: Lin Jing