The gap between South and North Korea in terms of capacity to generate electric power has widened to a record high.
 
According to Statistics Korea on Monday, South Korea generated a total of 86-thousand-900 megawatts of electricity as of 2013, roughly 12 times more than North Korea. 
 
When related statistics were first collected in 1965, South Korea’s electric power generation amounted to 700 megawatts, or a third of the North’s. The tables turned in the 1980s with the gap continuously widening since.
 
In particular, the statistics agency noted that electric power produced by nuclear power plants in the South stands at 20-thousand-716 megawatts while the North does not have a single nuclear power plant in operation due to a lack of construction technology.