DPR Korea’s Reforestation Policy

Afforestation and Forest Conservation in DPRK

The respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un made public the immortal classical work "Modern Tree Nurseries Should Be Built to Conduct a More Vigorous Forest Restoration Campaign" on May 14, 2016.

The work indicates the tasks and ways for covering the whole country with trees and flowers, including the issue of building land- and labor-saving tree nurseries that produce saplings in a scientific, industrial and intensive way in all provinces and the issue of dynamically conducting a mass movement for bringing about a turn in afforestation and forest conservation.

Thanks to his patriotic intention to turn the DPRK into a socialist paradise with green woods, signal progress has been made in the work for forest restoration over the past decade.

Following the construction of the splendid Kangwon Provincial Tree Nursery, tree nurseries with automated and streamlined production lines sprang up in North Hamgyong Province and other provinces.

Material and technical foundations were strengthened at city and county tree nurseries. As a result, the nationwide sapling production has increased more than two times as compared with the one of ten years ago and the area planted with trees expanded every year. In the course, more than 12 000 units won the title of Socialist Patriotic Forest.

Forest science research bases were built across the country to further enliven the afforestation and forest conservation based on science and technology.

This year, the second forest restoration campaign began. Amid the great patriotic zeal of all the people for increasing the country's forest resources, 100 million and tens of millions of trees were planted throughout the country in spring alone.

The country is turning green as afforestation and forest conservation is being pushed forward at a new stage across the country.

In the DPRK where mountains make up the bulk of its territory, afforestation and forest conservation are conducted through an all-people movement on a nationwide scale every year.

True to the intention of the Workers' Party of Korea on conducting a vigorous forest restoration campaign involving the entire Party, the whole army and all the people, modern tree nurseries have been built and many forests, including hundreds of thousands of hectares of wild fruit forests, created in provinces, cities and counties for the last ten-odd years.

Tree nurseries, built in different parts of the country, strengthened their material and technical foundations to produce billions of saplings of 160-odd good species last year.

Progress was also made in the work to put afforestation and forest conservation on a scientific basis.

Forest science research institutes were built across the country to put afforestation and management on a scientific basis of higher level.

The Academy of Forest Science was inaugurated in January this year. The dynamic work has been done to widely propagate oil bearing trees acclimatized to climatic and soil conditions of the country such as high-yielding Evodia daniellii Benn, oil-bearing chestnut and Acer truncatum and wild fruit trees such as dwarf pine nut, calcium plum and Ribes nigrum.

The forest sector concluded a nationwide forest resource survey that combined the Korean-style forest resource survey and analysis system with field survey, thus providing a foundation for analyzing and evaluating the forest state in detail and conducting forest restoration in a scientific way.

Successes were also made in the forest conservation including the establishment of a nationwide information service system for monitoring forest fire and a forest insect monitoring and predicting system.

The state of the DPRK will as ever direct efforts to afforestation and forest conservation so as to promote the people's wellbeing and contribute to the global environmental protection.