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Tree-planting carried out across DPRK

Date: 16/03/2025 | Source: Pyongyang Times | Read original version at source

Large numbers of trees were planted across the DPRK on the occasion of Tree-planting Day.

Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, and officials of the SPA Standing Committee planted trees at the Songmun Revolutionary Site.

Vice-Premier Kim Jong Gwan, officials of the construction headquarters of 50 000 flats in Pyongyang Municipality, soldier-builders and civilian builders planted trees of good species in the Hwasong area.

The students of Mangyongdae Revolutionary School and Kang Pan Sok Revolutionary School went to the Hwasong area to plant trees out of their patriotism.

Officials of commissions, ministries and national agencies planted trees around the Grand Monument on Mansu Hill, the Central Botanical Garden, the Monument to Party Founding and other places.

Officials and working people in Pyongyang planted more than 1 500 trees in the special forest reserve of the Mangyongdae Revolutionary Site.

Officials, working people, youth and students in North Phyongan, South Hwanghae, Kangwon and North Hamgyong provinces and Kaesong Municipality planted trees around the statues of the peerlessly great men, revolutionary sites, revolutionary battle sites and the cemeteries of fallen soldiers of the Korean People's Army in their residential areas.

Tree-planting was also conducted in the Ragwon County Offshore Farm on the east coast where a gigantic construction project is underway under the loving care of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Officials, working people, youth and students planted many trees at the fairyland villages and surrounding mountains in Songgan and Sijung counties of Jagang Province.

Working people in South Phyongan and North Hwanghae provinces and Nampho Municipality worked devotedly to create forests of economic value necessary for supplying raw materials to regional-industry factories.

Officials, working people and inhabitants of different regions took part in the work to landscape their residential quarters with good species of trees and flowering shrubs.

Officials and employees of tree nurseries across the country produced sufficient saplings to ensure the successful tree-planting.

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