Kim Yong Nam Visits Tree Nursery

SPA Presidium President Kim Yo’ng-nam is briefed about sapling cultivation at a Forest Management Station Nursery in Chungsan County, South P’yo’ngan Province in a photo which appeared on the bottom left of page 2 of the November 22, 2016 edition of the WPK daily newspaper Rodong Sinmun (Photo: Rodong Sinmun).

DPRK state media reported on November 21 (Monday) that Supreme People’s Assembly [SPA] Presidium President Kim Yong Nam (Kim Yo’ng-nam) visited a tree nursery of the Chungsan (Jungsan) County, South P’yo’ngan, Forestry Management Station.  According to state media reporting, Chungsan County “directing efforts to the work for cultivating saplings of good species to meet the scientific and technical requirements in a responsible manner and consolidating its material and technical foundation.”

Kim Yong Nam “praised the officials and employees of the nursery for having made a contribution to improving the people’s living standard by planting a lot of saplings of big economic value and creating shelter belts and firewood forests of dozens of hectares.”  Whilst planting trees with nursery officials, Kim “called upon all the working people to enshrine Kim Jong Il’s (Kim Cho’ng-il) patriotism and unanimously turn out in the work for turning the whole country into forests and woodland and put sapling production on a scientific, industrial and intensive basis and create forests under a long-term plan.”