In Pyongyang City trees of good species are being planted at revolutionary sites, pleasure grounds, parks and streets to add beauty to the scenery of the capital.

Working people and school youth and children planting trees in the Revolutionary Site on Munsu Hill are recollecting with deep emotion the historic day when President Kim Il Sung, General Secretary Kim Jong Il and anti-Japanese heroine Kim Jong Suk planted trees on the hill.

The President climbed the hill together with Pyongyangites on April 6, Juche 36 (1947) after the liberation of the country with a far-reaching plan to turn the devastated mountains and fields into green forests.

He said the hill was called Munsu Hill meaning that it was as beautiful as embroidered silk, but was denuded of trees by the Japanese imperialists to lose its original sight and look ugly. He added that the consequences of the Japanese imperialist colonial rule must be removed at an early date through an effective afforestation. Creating abundant forest resources is of great importance in developing the national economy, improving the people's standard of living and making the country prosperous and advanced and in protecting the land of the country and rendering it beautiful, he said.

That day, the President personally planted trees on the hill and spread a bright vista for the building of the capital on its peak.

Larch trees planted by the three commanders of Mt. Paektu are growing fresh and green there now and they are protected and tended with special care as precious relics to be handed down through generations.

The hill is a site of cultural recreation for the working people.