'...He told officials that he remembered Chairman Kim Jong Il, who had been so impatient to see bare mountains during his field guidance, and that he felt a shot of pain from failing to dispel the Chairman’s anxiety...'
'...He said that the forest resources of the country shrank in bulk during the Arduous March, the forced march and there was no space to step back, leaving bare mountains as they were...'
'...Then he ardently called on the entire Party, army and all the people to turn out for a general mobilization for recovering them, deeming this campaign a war with nature as the whole country rose from the debris during the post-war reconstruction...'
'...Actually his appeal was a mighty declaration that manifested his iron will to beautify the country into a socialist powerful country and a paradise of people...'
'...True to his ardent appeal all the people across the country turned out as one for the afforestation and protection of forests regarding it as the supreme patriotic work for the future of the country and its eternal prosperity' #NorthKorea#rodongrodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'In April Juche 80(1991), President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il planted memorial trees at the the April 15 Children’s Flower Garden. 30-odd years have passed since the President and the Chairman planted the trees and they have grown giant...' rodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...The great leaders noted that afforestation is the work for the everlasting prosperity of the country to provide the people with happy life and hand over rich forest resources and beautiful country to posterity...'
'...The two trees planted on the spring day convey their noble patriotic will...'
'There is a thick forest of pine trees (Songdan) about 4 kilometers distant from the township of Riwon County in South Hamgyong Province. The Songdan has been well known among our people as a famous scenic spot since long ago...' #NorthKorea#rodongrodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...According to old history books, there were no pine trees but white sands. People in the area had planted young pine trees in the white sandy beach and tended them attentively in order to prevent the effect of sea wind...'
'...Those young pine trees grew up forming a thick forest to display a beautiful scenery. The Songdan became more attractive and famous under the warm care of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il who visited it and gave precious instructions to protect and manage it...'
'Kim Jong Un...planted memorial trees together with the participants in the 2nd Conference of Secretaries of Primary Committees of the WPK on March 2, the Tree-planting Day...' #NorthKorea#rodongrodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...The Secretaries were filled with great excitement and delight as they came to plant memorial trees in the presence of the respected General Secretary in the Hwasong area...'
'...Tree-planting is due work of all citizens in this land and sacred patriotic work of planting seeds of happiness and shaping the future with their sweat and efforts...'
'More than 3 000 itinerant art propaganda squads across the country display feverish activities in the major domains of economic construction...' #NorthKorea#rodongrodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...economic agitation activities of the itinerant art propaganda squads for vigorously inspiring the masses to implementing the decisions of 4th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea are being briskly launched...'
'...Party organizations at all levels organize the work for focusing the agitating forces on the main fronts, keystone in achieving the economic revitalization and growth of production, in tactical and creative ways...'
'A video conference to review last year's work for the forest restoration campaign and the general mobilization for land management took place at the People's Palace of Culture on February 24...' #NorthKorea#rodongrodong.rep.kp/en/index.php?s…
'...The conference analyzed and reviewed the shortcomings revealed in the forest restoration and the general mobilization for land management...'
'...It called upon officials to stand in the van in this year's struggle for cementing the foundation for implementing the 5-year plan and for turning the country into a socialist fairyland and a beautiful land representing the era of the Workers' Party' #NorthKorea#rodong
'Officials and scientists of each provincial institute of agricultural science in #NorthKorea have made progress in researches for the establishment of scientific farming system and methods capable of propelling seed revolution and coping with disastrous abnormal weather...'
'...North Hwanghae Provincial Institute of Agricultural Science bred high-yielding rice strains resistant to typhoon and a rice species whose seedlings can be cultivated without using plastic sheet...'
'...Kangwon Provincial Institute of Agricultural Science directed its effort to the increase of seed productivity in order to introduce the rice species newly bred last year into the whole areas of the province...'