Giving prominence to the people in Kangwon Province in the van of the forest restoration campaign

The great leader Comrade Kim Jong Il said as follows.

"Ardent patriotism is a concrete idea and sentiment that is manifested in taking loving care of every blade of grass or tree that grows in one's native country."

Patriotism finds expression in valuing and loving every blade of grass and tree on the land where one has grown up.

Planting and tending trees is a patriotic work for guaranteeing the life of the people and happiness and for the eternal prosperity of the rising generation and the country. The attitude of a true revolutionary who lives and fights for the future, looking out for the distant future of the revolution, and the attitude of a true patriot who thinks first of the interests of the state and society and devotes himself to the prosperity of the country are clearly verified in afforestation and forest conservation.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, who had always worried about the forest situation of the country, declared the forest restoration campaign as a war against nature and personally became a commander of the campaign opening up a new history of change, saying that there is no way to withdraw from the forest issue any longer.

In July Juche107(2018), the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Kangwon Provincial Tree Nursery built by the local people.

Looking round the tree nursery, he said that we should call the entire Party and all the people once again to the forest restoration campaign, a patriotic undertaking of lasting significance and Kangwon Province should continue to stand in the vanguard of this campaign, so its tree nursery has an important role to play in the project.

He continued that the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and self-development is a propellant for us to develop most rapidly and it is our most valuable treasure and resource adding that all the people should hold high the banner of self-sustenance with the people of Kangwon Province as a model and display the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance so as to build a prosperous and powerful socialist country on this land.

Standing on the observation platform, he spoke highly of the view of the tree nursery, stressing that it was fruition of the spirit of patriotism of the officials and working people of Kangwon Province who had built it by their own efforts with the belief in their own strength, and that all other people should learn from the mettle of struggle and way of work of this provincial population.

The officials and working people in Kangwon Province, who received the greatest trust of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, are burning their hearts with a pledge to devote their clean conscience to the greenery of the country true to his noble intention. True to their pledge, they are performing their responsibility and role in the forest restoration campaign.