Noting that he planned to turn the tree nursery into the one to be proud of in the world so that it might be presented as a gift to the Seventh Congress of the WPK, he said with great satisfaction that the KPA has creditably carried out the order of the supreme commander without an inch of deflection.

The tree nursery looks very vast as it is full of architectural structures and it has undergone so dramatic changes that no trace of its appearance last year could be found, he said, adding with pleasure that a model, standard of the tree nursery in the country and the tree nursery, the first of its kind, has been wonderfully built.

He went round various places of the tree nursery.

He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that a combined control system has been successfully built at the tree nursery to ensure the most suitable conditions and environment for cultivating tree saplings.

He said that sapling greenhouses have bee built in a modern way to optimize the conditions for the growth of saplings by introducing cutting-edge technology and it is possible to produce saplings twice for a year by realizing the automation and mechanization of work in the greenhouses on a high level.

Modern irrigation facilities and sunshade apparatuses have been installed at the cultivation grounds for acclimatizing saplings grown on the round cuttings grounds and greenhouses to outdoor environment and at the districts for cultivating potted saplings, he said, noting they look attractive.

He said that all production processes ranging from the seed selection to sowing and sapling packing have been automated and streamlined and there are adequate stroma production processes and facilities for storing saplings.

The yearly sapling production at the tree nursery is more than 20 million and if all provinces build such land-saving and manpower-saving tree nurseries as this tree nursery, they will be able to produce 0.2 billion saplings a year, he said with satisfaction. He called upon the chairmen of the provincial party committees and officials concerned to visit the tree nursery.

He gave thanks to the designing unit, construction unit and the scientific research field that contributed to building the tree nursery of the world level to be handed to posterity in the name of the Seventh Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.

He expressed expectation and belief that the officials and employees of the Tree Nursery No. 122 of the KPA would manage and operate the tree nursery in a responsible manner and thus creditably discharge their mission and duty in turning all mountains of the country into mountains of gold and treasures.

He was accompanied by KPA Vice Marshal Hwang Pyong So, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the WPK and director of the General Political Bureau of the KPA, Army General Pak Yong Sik, minister of the People's Armed Forces, O Su Yong, vice-chairman of the C.C., the WPK, Jo Yong Won, vice department director of the C.C., the WPK, Kim Kyong Jun, minister of Land and Environment Protection, and Ma Won Chun, director of the Designing Department of the National Defence Commission.