Environmental protection a national undertaking
August 26, 2025The abnormal climatic phenomena and natural disasters that are now becoming increasingly prevalent in the world have deadly consequences for mankind, further highlighting the importance of the protection of ecological environment with each passing day.
The protection of ecological environment does not produce significant results overnight. Therefore, it requires constant efforts.
In our country the protection of ecological environment has become an all-nation and all-people undertaking.
It has set a long-term goal to afforest and landscape the whole country and steadily increases the areas of afforestation. Strict measures have been taken to prevent forest fire while raising the rate of rooting of trees and creating economic, protective and landscape forests in a large area and protecting them.
River improvement, road-keeping and landscaping projects are also being dynamically pushed ahead.
Many green areas are created in the streets, villages and parks and trees of good species and beautiful flowers widely planted in them. Among them are those called “city in forest”, “factory in park” in the country and their number is increasing continuously.
In recent years, electricity-saving technologies for making effective use of solar energy, geotherm and renewables and green architectural technologies such as roofing- and wall-greening technology have widely been introduced into the newly-built streets of Pyongyang.
Public service facilities with specially designed natural lighting conditions and skyscrapers with flowering shrubs and lawns planted on roofs and ground floors add beauty to the green streets.
Socialist fairyland villages, called “farm town” and “greenhouse city”, now spring up in different parts of the country.
Scientific research institutions in the field of environmental protection have made valuable achievements in the research into solving scientific and technological problems arising in environmental management, preservation and creation of natural environment and prevention of environmental pollution.
A sci-tech presentation and exhibition for the improvement of ecological environment in the capital city took place at the Sci-Tech Complex from late March to early April, attracting great interest of experts and the public.
The better the ecological environment gets, the more beautiful our life will become and the rosier our future will grow.
Ho Un Ju, official of the Central Committee of the Nature Conservation Union of Korea