calendar>>May 18. 2013 Juch 102
Rodong Sinmun Calls for Turning Green Mountains, Fields into Eternal Boon to Country's Prosperity
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- Green mountains and fields serve as eternal boon to guaranteeing the vitality and living of the nation under any circumstances and ensuring the prosperity of all generations to come. Rodong Sinmun Saturday says this in a bylined article.

Green mountains and fields are an icon of a prospering country, it notes, and goes on:

Green mountains and fields are the inherent picture of just society, socialist society which enables all people to lead a happy life. The great Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il devoted their all to the work to turn all the mountains into mountains of treasure and the fields into ones where all crops are abundant and all fruits ripen. This history has been given steady continuity since it began on the socialist principle of giving top priority to the people's interests and living.

The mountains and fields were devastated by the Japanese imperialists' plunder and they were reduced to ashes during the Korean War. In the subsequent period they became greener and the foundation of the self-supporting economy grew stronger as the days go by, turning the country into a paradise of people good to live in.

The drive to defend the socialist country was like a sacred battle to defend not only its independent dignity but also the green mountains and fields. In that hard period a patriotic work of lasting value to turn the land of the country into the land befitting socialist Korea was carried out and bold and ambitious projects for building gravity-fed waterways were carried out to supply life-giving water to fields of the country. As a result, the farmers have become able to lead a happy life at modern houses as people in urban areas do.

Green mountains and fields mean lasting assets for the prosperity of the country.

All people are called upon to turn all areas of the country into fields where all crops and fruits ripen in order not to put in vain the precious blood and sweat shed by those who reclaimed tideland by damming off sea waters and cultivated it with good care, tightening their belts.

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