The annual torrential rain swept over the country and brought a faint hope on the Inter-Korean relations. South Korea's Yonhap reported that as North Korea had informed South prior to it's dam water release into the Imjin River that flows to its Southern neighbor, experts are carefully deciphering it as a gesture aimed at thawing the Inter-Korean tension, a different move from the last year's unwarned water release that killed six South Koreans. The South Korean government warned people not to over-interpretate a single incident.