General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited Hasin-dong, Sosong District in Pyongyang on July 11, 1972 and learned in detail about the work of dongs and people's neighborhood units. He, on this basis, made public his work "On Improving the Work of Dong and People's Neighborhood Units".

His work serves as an important programme to be always held fast to by the Korean people in the drive for building a thriving nation, the article says, and goes on:

A dynamic work has been pushed forward in the DPRK to turn workplaces and villages into a thick forest and woodland. As a result, the number of villages in parks and workplaces in woods is increasing and many dongs and people's neighborhood units have been spruced up to fit a socialist fairyland.

"Turn all the urban and rural areas into socialist fairylands thick with trees and flowers and resounding with people’s laughter!" This is a joint call of the Central Committee and the Central Military Commission of the Workers' Party of Korea. Sky-high is the resolution of the Korean people to carry out the joint call. It is the unanimous desire of all people to more splendidly and beautifully spruce up their own streets, villages and workplaces as required by a thriving nation and thus glorify the country as a developed and highly civilized socialist country.

A lot of families across the country sent their children to the posts for defending the country and sincerely assist the service personnel materially and morally as their own parents would do. Servicepersons help civilians, and vice versa throughout the country. And beautiful traits of loving and taking care of war veterans and families of honored wounded soldiers and service personnel are given full play.

Everybody thinks more of the country than of his or her family and spares nothing for bolstering the capability for national defence. It is the real picture of Songun Korea today that this patriotic trait is given full play.

When the Korean people pool their patriotic wisdom and energies to materialize the plan of the Workers' Party of Korea for building an economic power, they will display Herculean strength, indeed, concludes the article.