Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, planted trees at the pondside park in Saeppyol Street on March 14, Tree-planting Day.

Present at the tree planting were major leading cadres of the Party and the government, families of the martyrs who participated in the overseas military operations who moved into their new houses in Saeppyol Street, officials of the Party and power organs in Hwasong District and students of revolutionary schools.

The participants were filled with deep emotion and joy as they were to plant trees in Saeppyol Street, a new street in the capital city where the feelings of respect of all the people across the country converge and which is a source of honour for our generation and of pride for our state.

Ri Il Hwan, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, made a speech on tree planting.

He said today's tree-planting ceremony, being held along with the start of the spring of 2026, is a manifestation of the sincere mind to always remember the true patriots who added a new page to the history of glorious dignity of the DPRK and to fulfil the desire of the martyrs who wished their beloved motherland eternal prosperity with youthfulness, and an expression of the noble will to spruce up the country more beautifully and improve the environment of the capital city more wonderfully.

Noting that the unanimous intention and mind cherished in the hearts of all the people are to be planted here together with trees, he added that it represents the sincerest love for and thanks to the heroes and a sense of patriotic mission and mind, fervent and invariable like theirs.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, together with the participants, planted for a long time the trees which will become new witnesses to the prospering capital, saying that the true image of our generation, who are following the noble spirit of heroic soldiers and reliably carrying forward the tradition of invincibility, should be reflected, along with the history of the country growing stronger, in every tree that will grow by embodying the souls of the martyrs who participated in the overseas military operations to add beauty to the landscape of Saeppyol Street brimming with the joy of moving into new houses.

He said that the martyrs were men of burning affection who loved their native places, parents, wives and children more warmly than any others, and men with great ideological and spiritual strength who turned the scent and beautiful memory of the hometown, provided by a handful of earth they each had taken from the homeland, into their indomitable heroism in the showers of fire on the alien battlefields.

He hoped that the noble spirit of the martyrs would deeply permeate this land to help build a solid pillar of patriotism in the hearts of all the people and train all the coming generations to be the most righteous human beings.

Patriotism is the source of enthusiasm giving birth to the unlimited miraculous might and the driving force behind creation and changes, he said, adding we will surely build a prosperous and strong country, the most powerful one in the world, on the great strength of patriotism.