The credit for this thick wood goes to the patriotic, devoted efforts of all the citizens, Kim Yong Hwan, vice-chairman of the Tokchon City People's Committee, told KCNA.

The citizens have cultivated millions of Larix leptolepis saplings every year, while concentrating efforts on the campaign to plant and tend them.

They are now enjoying big benefits from the trees, which are enough to meet the city's demands for props at coal mines and timbers at construction projects.

Many wild animals gather in the forest.

The vice-chairman said that he would work harder to enrich and spruce up the city in hearty response to the call made by the dear respected Kim Jong Un in his recent work "Let Us Effect Kim Jong Il's Patriotism and Step Up the Building of a Prosperous Country".