On this occasion papers here Saturday editorially call for creating forests and preserving them well to turn the whole country into thick woodland and greenery.

Rodong Sinmun says that land management including tree-planting is a long-term patriotic work for the country's prosperity, adding:

It was the last instructions of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to turn all mountains into ones rich in treasure.

It is the firm determination and will of the Workers' Party of Korea to turn the mountains across the country into thick woodland in the near future by creating forests and preserving them well.

The creation of forests is an important work which brooks no further delay. Tree-planting should be conducted nonstop as a work for the eternal prosperity of the country and nation, a noble patriotic work, no matter how vast our task may be and no matter how the situation may change.

We should turn out in the spring tree-planting campaign in one mind out of patriotism in hearty response to the Party's call and thus make a great advance in the work to turn the whole country into a thick woodland and greenery in this significant year.

All people should turn out as one in this campaign with the viewpoint that tree-planting is the work to embody Kim Jong Il's patriotism.

Minju Joson calls on all officials and other people to display patriotic enthusiasm in tree-planting in this meaningful year in a bid to make a tangible contribution to turning the whole country into a thick woodland and greenery.