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Rodong Sinmun Calls for Conducting Spring Tree Planting
Pyongyang, March 2 (KCNA) -- Papers Monday dedicate editorials to the Tree-planting Day, the significant day when President Kim Il Sung kindled the first torch for the movement for planting trees.

The President climbed Moran Hill on March 2, Juche 35 (1946). Watching the mountain and river of the country damaged during the Japanese imperialist colonial rule, he unrolled a far-reaching plan to turn all the mountains into thickly wooded people's resorts by planting lots of trees.

To turn all mountains into golden and treasure ones is the behests of the President and leader Kim Jong Il and their lifetime desires, says Rodong Sinmun.

It goes on:

Only when lots of trees are planted and cultivated is it possible to protect the land and turn the mountains and fields of the country into a socialist fairyland.

Marshal Kim Jong Un said that we can no longer step back with the issue of bare mountains left unsettled. He instructed the entire party, the whole country and all the people to turn out in the campaign to restore forests, regarding it as a war with nature, just as the whole country turned out to clear debris in the period of the postwar rehabilitation and construction.

This reflects the noble aspiration of Kim Jong Un to turn our country into a more beautiful one and glorify it for eternity.

Our generation is faced with a sacred duty to turn the great country into a socialist paradise.

Now is the time for the entire party, the whole army and all the people to turn out as one in the forest restoration campaign, regarding the tree planting as an important work related to the destiny of the future of the country and the nation and final victory in the drive for building a thriving nation.

The forest restoration campaign serve as a yardstick judging patriotism of people.

Whoever plants and cultivates even a single more tree is a true patriot.

Minju Joson calls upon all Koreans to conduct a dynamic forest restoration campaign to turn all mountains of the country into the golden and treasure ones and thus make positive contributions to turning our country into the golden tapestry in the era of the Workers' Party and into thickly wooded people's resorts.

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