'...that the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground is a place associated with the desire of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il for a space power...'
'...and it is a significant place where our state successfully launched artificial satellites twice with its own efforts and technology, true to the lifetime intention of the President and the Chairman...'
'...[KJU] stressed that it is the noble duty of our Party and space scientists and technicians in our era to turn the launching ground, associated with our state's great dream and ambition for a space power...'
'Support to the railway gains momentum in the DPRK. With the day of support to railways as an occasion, Pyongyang City and Kangwon Province planted good species of trees in the vicinity of railways and did gutter-cleaning and stone-breaking through a mass campaign...'
'...North Phyongan, North Hwanghae and South Hwanghae provinces readjusted a large area of incline and built retaining walls at dozens of places. Rason City overhauled railways and spruced up railway lines and station yard...'
'...Officials of North Phyongan Province took timely measures in relevant railway sections and sent trackmen's teams a large amount of steel and welding rods needed for producing railway fixtures by establishing social atmosphere of support to railways' #NorthKorea#rodong
'...expressed his great satisfaction at the fact that they confirmed the aerospace photographing method, the operating characteristics of high-resolution photographing equipment and the reliability of image transmission system through the recent important tests...'
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Seeing the vertical and oblique high-resolution images on specific ground regions taken through the major tests, he highly appreciated the successes the NADA has recently made in settling the image composing and processing technology...'
'...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...'
'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...'