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The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un made public his immortal classic work “Let the Entire Party, the Whole Army and All the People Conduct a Vigorous Forest Restoration Campaign to Cover the Mountains of the Country with Green Woods” on February 26 2015. Over the past decade, great successes have been made in afforestation in the DPRK.

True to the intention of the Workers’ Party of Korea which declared forest restoration as a war with nature, working people across the country turned out for forest planting and protection.

Units have worked out detailed long-term goals and phased plans and persistently carried them out.

Substantial successes have been made in forest planting and protection thanks to the establishment of a system of taking responsibility for the area in one’s charge and a habit of manuring and cultivating for replanted trees in a responsible manner along with the ensuring of a high rooting rate, and the number of units winning the title of Forest of Socialist Patriotism is on the increase. 

The Ponghwa Chemical Factory, Unhung Farm in Thaechon County and Tansan Farm in Pakchon County were awarded the title before others in January 2019.

The working people got more enthusiastic day by day in the emulation drive to plant and tend even one more tree, deeply aware that forests are the most precious resources of the country and assets to be handed down to posterity. In 2020 more than 380 units won the title.

In particular, working people in Pyongyang, who are redoubling efforts to spruce up the capital city, planted and tended good species of trees and flowering shrubs in mountains around it and thus created good experience in afforestation.

Working people and women’s union members in South Phyongan and Jagang provinces devoted their sincere patriotic efforts to forest restoration to turn the forests in their charge into treasure forests conducive to the economic development of their regions.

In 2021, the title of Forest of Socialist Patriotism was awarded to many units including Unsan County of North Phyongan Province, Kwail County of South Hwanghae Province and Chollima District of Nampho Municipality.

Last year, Kangwon Province substantially arranged a demonstration of model units on a provincial scale and hundreds of units won honorary titles through fierce competition between units and between regions.

Amid the brisk mass movement for afforestation and forest protection, women’s union members across the country have taken an active part in landscaping projects as they value and tend every tree.

Schoolchildren play their part in forest restoration.

Those across the country have newly created large areas of forests of the Children’s Union and planted and tended trees with sincerity.

Children’s Union organizations give prominence to students who set an example in tree planting and so on while teaching students scientific methods of planting trees and measures to protect forests from natural disasters on various occasions including extracurricular activities with the result that the exemplary students’ deeds are followed by others.

As the number of young patriots tending trees and grass by themselves is on the increase, millions of trees of good species have rooted in the forests of the Children’s Union and at their campuses year by year.