KIM JONG UN
On Bringing About a Revolutionary
Turn in Land Administration in Line with
the Requirements of the Building of a Thriving
Socialist Country
Talk to Senior Officials
of the Party and State Economic Organs and Working People’s Organizations
April 27, Juche 101
(2012)
It is very significant that
the Conference of Activists in the General Mobilization Movement for Land
Administration is to be held in the period of revolutionary upsurge, when the
entire Party, the whole army and all the people are accelerating the general
march for the building of a thriving country and the improving of the people’s
standard of living with the great dignity and pride in having celebrated the
centenary of the birth of President Kim Il Sung as the greatest revolutionary
holiday and true to the spirit of the Fourth Conference of the Workers’ Party
of Korea.
The forthcoming Conference of
Activists in the General Mobilization Movement for Land Administration should
serve as an important occasion for defending
and exalting the
brilliance of the
ideas of General Kim Jong Il on land
administration and his imperishable exploits and for bringing about a
revolutionary turn in land administration in line with the requirements of the
building of a thriving socialist country.
Land administration is a
patriotic undertaking of lasting significance for achieving the prosperity of
the country and a noble undertaking for creating excellent base of living for
the people. When we perform this undertaking in a far-sighted way, we will be
able to build our country, our motherland, into a thriving socialist country,
into a people’s paradise, and hand down to the coming generations rich and
beautiful rivers and mountains.
President Kim Il Sung and
General Kim Jong Il, peerless patriots and benevolent fathers of the people,
always paid close attention to land administration and devoted painstaking
efforts to developing the rivers and mountains of the country in an excellent
way.
Immediately after the
liberation of the country, Kim Il Sung took a shovel in his hand to break
ground first for the Pothong River improvement project and planted a tree on
Munsu Hill, unfolding a long-term plan for land development; he then personally
led the efforts for its realization.
True to the noble intention of
the President, General Kim Jong Il, saying that land administration is a
patriotic undertaking for the prosperity of the country and the happiness of
all the generations to come, clarified the orientation and ways for land
development; in order to have the entire Party, the whole country and all the
people actively participate in land administration, he initiated the general
mobilization movement for land administration and energetically led it.
Under his wise leadership and
concern, monumental structures of lasting value have sprung up across the
country, and streets and villages have been turned into socialist fairylands.
The land under cultivation in the country has been realigned into large-sized,
standardized fields as befits the land of socialist Korea, vast tidal flats
have been reclaimed into arable land and solid material and technological
foundations have been laid for covering the whole country with trees and
flowers. Many scenic places and spots, like Mt. Kuwol, Mt. Chilbo, Ryongmun
Cave and Songam Cavern, have been developed into pleasure grounds for the
people, rivers improved in a neat way, and Youth Hero Motorway, Pukchong-Hyesan
Road and other new roads built; thus, the land of the country have assumed a
new appearance.
These epochal changes that
have taken place in land administration are entirely a brilliant fruition of
the sagacious leadership of the great General, who advanced far-reaching plans
and original policies for all the realms of land administration and energetically
led the efforts for their implementation. The immortal exploits the General
achieved in land administration to lay the basic foundations for the building
of our country, our motherland, into a thriving one and turn it into a place,
beautiful and good to live in, will shine forever in the history of our
prospering socialist country.
The proud successes achieved
in land administration in the past days are associated with the feats of the
officials and working people in the field of land administration, service
personnel and people, who have worked devotedly to defend and implement the
Party’s policy on land administration.
Availing myself of this
opportunity, I highly appreciate the feats officials, service personnel and
people have performed in land administration and extend warm thanks to the
participants in the Conference of Activists in the General Mobilization
Movement for Land Administration and to other officials and working people in
the sector of land administration and all the service personnel and people.
Today the sector of land
administration is faced with a heavy yet honourable task to bring about a
revolutionary turn in its work in line with the requirements of the building of
a thriving socialist country.
Officials and working people
in the sector of land administration should staunchly defend the General’s
ideas on land administration and his leadership exploits, exalt their
brilliance, and carry out his instructions without any vacillation and without
an inch of concession, thus sprucing up the appearance of the land as befits
that of a thriving socialist country.
This is the general orientation and
general task facing the sector of land administration.
We should, first of all,
develop Pyongyang into a sacred, revolutionary city equipped with a
revolutionary outlook on the leader, into a majestic and picturesque
world-class city.
General Kim Jong Il stressed
on several occasions that Pyongyang should be developed into a city permeated
with the revolutionary outlook on the leader with the statue of President Kim
Il Sung on Mansu Hill as the central axis. Developing Pyongyang, which is
associated with the careers of the President and the General and where they are
preserved in their lifetime appearances, into the capital of the revolution
permeated with the revolutionary outlook on the leader is the revolutionary
duty and noble moral obligation of our Party and our people.
Greeting the centenary of the
birth of the President, we set up on Mansu Hill statues of the President and
the General with due respect as a reflection of the ardent desire and infinite
loyalty of the people across the country. This is a source of the greatest
glory and happiness of our people. As the statues were set up on Mansu Hill and
its surrounding area has been developed in a magnificent and modern way, the
architectural formation of Pyongyang has become wonderful with the statues as
the central axis. We should be effective in afforestation and greening so as to
better lay out the area of the statues and the Mansudae area.
The area of the Kumsusan
Palace of the Sun should be developed to lay it out as a solemn, supreme
sanctuary of Juche.
In the palace, President Kim
Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il are preserved in their lifetime appearances,
living forever with us, and our people and the progressive people of the world,
who are yearning for them, stream there continuously. We should plant at the
Kumsusan Palace of the Sun and the Arboretum a greater number of various trees
and beautiful flowering plants of the best species in the world and tend them
with utmost care to cover them with thick forests; we should also lay out the
park and green area well and thus add to the scenery of the palace.
The Mangyongdae Revolutionary
Site should be laid out in an excellent way. Mangyongdae is the place where Kim
Il Sung, the great leader whom our people greeted for the first time in their 5
000-year-long history, was born and spent his childhood. It is the spiritual
home of our people and the sanctuary of the sun and sacred place of the
revolution dear to the hearts of the revolutionary peoples of the world. By
better laying out Mangyongdae as befits the sanctuary of the sun, we should
ensure that his great personality and immortal exploits are handed down
generation after generation and that the history of his revolutionary
activities continues for all eternity on this land. We should take good care of
the buildings and remains in the revolutionary site like his native home and
the revolutionary museum, and afforest the place on the highest standard as
befits the sanctuary of the sun.
We should build up Pyongyang
not only as a city imbued with the revolutionary outlook on the leader but also
as a centre and paradigm of Songun culture, thereby ensuring that the culture
created in Pyongyang spreads to provinces. If we spruce up the looks of the
country by building up Pyongyang as an example and modelling local cities on
it, we can turn the whole country into a socialist fairyland.
Pyongyang should form streets
and lay roads excellently, build dwelling houses, public buildings, catering
establishments and other architectural structures in a characteristic way and
take good care of them. We should turn the capital city of Pyongyang into a
thickly wooded city, into a city in a park, by building parks and pleasure
grounds excellently, creating more green areas and planting trees of good
species and beautiful flowers. We should construct buildings, create green
areas and plant flowers in our own refined and characteristic way as required
by the national sentiments and modern aesthetic feelings.
We should perfect decorative
illumination of Pyongyang. As it has many monumental edifices like the Tower of
the Juche Idea and the Arch of Triumph and large buildings like the Grand
People’s Study House, the May Day Stadium and the high-rises in the Mansudae
area, the city can be decorated nicely with illuminations. We should decorate
the buildings and their surroundings in our own refined and graceful way so as
to make the night view of Pyongyang more elegant and wonderful as befits the
capital of a prosperous country.
Provincial seats and other
local cities and rural villages should be laid out in conformity with their
characteristic features.
Now provinces are not laid out
well; their seats do not sustain their characteristics. The forms of dwelling
houses and public buildings in Haeju in South Hwanghae Province, Sariwon in
North Hwanghae Province and other provincial seats look much alike. It is
apparently because, if the central authorities praised a structure, a
nationwide demonstration lecture was organized about it and a standardized
design was sent down to provinces for them to use in their construction.
Dwelling houses in rural communities should be distinctive from locality to
locality. However, they all look the same, be they in east or west coastal
areas or in mountainous areas.
Local cities and rural
villages should be laid out in such a way that they set off the peculiar features
and individualities of the localities concerned.
Provinces should build up
their construction forces and dynamically push ahead with urban and rural
construction. They should preserve their own specific features in urban
formation and give variety to the forms of structures. The central authorities
should not control local construction too strictly, but allow provinces to
construct buildings in conformity with their own specific features.
When inspecting local areas, I
have often seen bare land; wind may flick off dust there and it is not good to
the eye, either. To plant trees, flowers and cover plants or create pastures
everywhere, except the land under cultivation, so as to ensure that there is
not an inch of land, bare or full of weeds–this is the intention of the Party.
We should plant lawn grass and other cover plants in the urban and rural
residential areas, along the railways and in the parks to leave no land bare.
We should direct a great
effort to managing and protecting land.
Land is a basic means of
agricultural production, the base of living for the people and a valuable asset
of the country to be handed down to the coming generations. As our country has
a limited area of land under cultivation, we should always be attentive to the
managing and protecting of land.
We should be effective in land
protection, so as to prevent even an inch of it from being lost. As there have
been floods for several years because of heavy rains in the rainy season, a
considerable area of land under cultivation has caved in or been washed away.
We should take thoroughgoing measures to cope with the rainy season, dredge
river-beds and build up embankments to prevent the land under cultivation from
caving in or being washed away.
In order to build on
this land a thriving
socialist country true
to the earnest
instructions of General Kim Jong Il, we should solve, before
anything else, the problem of food for the people; to this end, we should
obtain arable land to the maximum and positively increase its area while
increasing the unit-area yield of crops. The land that can be brought under
cultivation can be found everywhere. A man, who strives to find reclaimable
land and increase the area of the land under cultivation even by an inch, is a
genuine patriot.
We should continue to put a
great effort on reclaiming tidal flats to expand the area of the land under
cultivation. The tidal flats we are planning to reclaim amount to 300 000
hectares. We should give precedence to reclaiming those with good conditions for
building embankments and prospects of being turned into arable land soon and to
building networks of facilities there immediately afterwards to put them under
cultivation. As the reclaiming of tidal flats is a huge and difficult
undertaking for nature transformation, we should pay national concern to it and
take thoroughgoing measures to ensure the supply of enough equipment and
materials including lorries, fuel and cement.
We should finish the remainder
of the land realignment projects. The projects have been undertaken across the
country under the leadership of General Kim Jong Il, but there are still
patches of fields in the far corners of the countryside. Provinces should
realign by themselves these unnoticeable patches splendidly and hand them down to
posterity.
The General said that, after
completing the land realignment projects, the power poles scattered over the
paddy and nonpaddy fields should be relocated, but his instructions are yet to
be carried out to the letter. True to his instructions, we should relocate the
power poles standing in a disorderly way.
We should make persevering
efforts to ameliorate the soil conditions. Both paddy and nonpaddy fields in
our country were brought under cultivation long ago, and as a large proportion
of them is located on slopes, rains have impoverished and acidified the soil by
stripping them of nutrients. We should raise their fertility by improving their
soil conditions.
We should analyze the soil composition field by field, and, on
this basis, carpet them with fresh soil, apply slaked lime or organic
fertilizers to the fields and plant legumes there.
We should establish strict
order over the use of land to protect and make the most of it. It is necessary
to register all the fields under cultivation with the state and prevent them
from being left idle or encroached upon. When we are to build towns, villages,
factories or roads, we should build them not in the fields under cultivation,
but at the foot of mountains or in the fields that are not fit for cultivation.
We should see to it that dwelling houses and public buildings in the arable
land are moved to the foot of mountains or barren land. If we have to build a
factory on the arable land, we should build it on the sterile part; we should
save as much land as possible by locating shops, restaurants and other
amenities on the lower storeys of buildings in urban construction. Strict
discipline should be set up, whereby a building or factory is allowed to be
constructed on the arable land only in return for substitute land.
We should make good
arrangements to plant trees and conserve forests to cover the country with
trees and flowers.
Forests in the mountains that
account for nearly 80% of the country’s land are its most precious resources,
the wealth to be handed down to posterity and a major means of protecting land.
But afforestation and forest
conservation are not on a proper track now. Many trees are planted every spring
and autumn, but there is no marked improvement in the afforestation of the
country. Many mountains in the country remain denuded of trees. In provinces
there are not a few bare mountains even among the ones with the signboards,
reading, “Forest Conservation,” “Youth Forest” and “Children’s Union Forest.”
Measures of should be taken by the Party and the state to promote afforestation
and forest conservation.
We should make all the bare
mountains thickly wooded in ten years by bringing about a radical improvement
in afforestation and forest conservation. This is the unshakeable determination
and will of our Party.
Afforestation is a long-term
project, so it should be undertaken under a far-reaching plan. We should draw
up annual plans and a long-term plan clearly for afforestation on the basis of
a scientific analysis of the state of the mountains, their geographical
features and the local conditions, and carry them out without fail. Only then
can we make the bare mountains thickly wooded in ten years as determined by the
Party and further improve the administration of forests in a far-sighted way.
It is the behests of the
President and the General to turn all the mountains into those where we can
pick “treasures,” “gold.” As instructed by them, we should undertake
afforestation in the way of planting the species of trees that will be useful
for economic construction and improving of people’s living standards–trees for
timber production, oil-yielding trees, wild-fruit trees, chestnut trees and
trees for pulp and paper production.
We should give priority to
growing saplings to carry on afforestation under a far-reaching plan. We cannot
cover the country with trees in the way of transplanting those in the
mountains. We should build nurseries in the capital and provinces and encourage
them to introduce scientific, industrial and intensive methods of producing
saplings. This will make it possible to ensure regular supply of many saplings
that grow fast and are of great economic value, like Pinus strobus and Larix
leptolepis that were highly appreciated by the General.
Tree-planting should be done
on the principle of planting the right trees on the right soil. We cannot
increase the survival rate of saplings, however superior their species may be,
nor can we grow them properly, if they are not provided with appropriate
climatic and soil conditions that suit their biological characteristics.
Therefore, we should plant trees on the principle of planting the right trees
on the right soil after making a detailed analysis of the climatic and soil conditions
of the relevant regions and areas, and plant needle- and broad-leaved trees in
good harmony so as to create favourable conditions for their growth.
Tree-planting should be
undertaken as an all-people drive. The work of covering the mountains across
the country with trees can be successful only through the efforts of all the
people of the country. Every institution, enterprise, cooperative organization
and school should be assigned an area and quota for tree-planting, and each and
every one should be encouraged to turn out in the tree-planting seasons of
spring and autumn. Particularly, youth league organizations and schools should
make vigorous efforts to create Youth Forest and Children’s Union Forest.
Officials should stand in the van of tree-planting. They should not confine
themselves to planting a few trees each on the Arbor Day, but lead the people
to plant trees with sincere care to meet the technical requirements by setting
examples as they plant trees with them in their van in the tree-planting
seasons of spring and autumn.
We should plant trees and tend
them with utmost care to increase their survival rate markedly. After planting
trees with meticulous care according to technical regulations, it is necessary
to take good care of them, watering them and removing grasses and shrubs around
them so that all of them can survive and grow well.
We should also direct great
efforts to preserving and managing forests.
Preventing forest fire is a
prerequisite for preserving and managing forests. A forest fire reduces the
valuable forest resources to ashes in an instant. We should educate people to
observe set order and put strict demand on them before they climb a mountain
lest the slightest risks of forest fire should occur. Provinces, cities and counties
should establish a well-knit system of keeping watch for forest fire, raising
signal of it and mobilizing the masses in case of a forest fire; we should also
build fire belts according to regulations so that any forest fire can be put
out in time and cannot spread further.
In order to protect forests,
we should decisively solve the people’s problem of firewood. If we fail to
solve this problem, we cannot protect forests because trees may be cut down at
random for firewood however many trees we may plant and grow. Provinces, cities
and counties should find a decisive solution to the firewood problem by
creating forests for firewood to make them pay off in practice, taking good
care of them, ensuring that the factories, enterprises and cooperative farms operate
their coal mines more efficiently, and widely introducing biogas. With the
recent development of an active additive for ultraanthracite, good prospects
have been opened for using ultraanthracite and bony coal in place of wood. This
additive must be widely introduced everywhere.
Damage of forests by pests
should be thoroughly prevented. We should take measures for preventing such
damage, control pests immediately and exhaustively once they break out, and
wage an all-people pest control drive every March and May. It is also necessary
to take measures to study and develop, produce and supply effective pesticides.
We should intensify the work
of water management, including river improvement.
As our country abounds in
water resources such as big and small rivers, lakes and reservoirs, we can
satisfy the demand of the country and people for water, prevent damage from
flooding and drought and develop the country’s landscape more nicely if we
manage them properly.
We should put efforts into
river improvement projects to prevent flooding and create a good appearance of
riverside areas. The damage from flooding in the rainy season is attributable
mainly to the overflowing of rivers. Therefore, if we are to prevent the
damage, we should regularly dredge river-beds so that water can flow away
freely however heavy the rain may be, straighten winding water courses, build
up embankments and form woodland along rivers. We should build embankments and
sidewalks along rivers in urban areas in keeping with the modern trends, and
turn their surroundings into parks, pleasure grounds and forests.
We should build a large number
of various structures such as dams and barrages on rivers and manage them
scrupulously. If we build them on rivers and properly maintain irrigation waterways,
including gravitational waterways, we can prevent damage from flooding and
drought, make effective use of water, produce electricity, raise fish and add
beauty to the landscape.
We should take careful
measures to prevent earth and sand from flowing into rivers and landslides from
occurring. To this end, we should plant many trees along rivers and build stone
terraces or buttresses where necessary.
We should conduct road
construction and management well.
Road is the face of the
country and one of the major criteria for judging the level of its economic
development and civilization. Proper road construction and management will make
it possible for us to develop the country’s economy, ensure people’s
convenience in their living and transform the appearance of the country.
We should channel efforts into
road construction to perfect the overall road network of the country in a
rational way and build up the roads to meet the modern, heavy-duty and
high-speed purposes. A ring road should be built in Pyongyang, and a larger
number of motorways and major roads constructed.
A qualitative improvement
should be made decisively in road construction. Methods of road construction
should be further perfected, and the demands of technical regulations and
building methods met to the full in the whole course, from roadbed construction
to pavement.
Construction of roads should
be made specialized for the improvement of its quality. We should build up
specialized road construction organs and their technical forces, so that they
could take full responsibility for constructing and maintaining roads in
conformity with the designs, technical regulations and construction methods. A
radical increase should be brought about in the rate of mechanization in road
construction. Those organs specializing in road construction should be amply
provided with machinery and equipment, so that they could make the maximum use
of them in constructing and maintaining roads.
Roads should be upgraded
technologically. Motorways, tourist roads and trunk roads should be renovated
in conformity with their grades and technical regulations, and paved
qualitatively. At the same time, the major roads should be expanded in width
and wooden bridges replaced with concrete ones. In keeping with the
topographical conditions of our country, which is mountainous, tunnels should
be dug across mountain passes and ridges, and bridges built across valleys,
thereby adjusting the alignment of roads and protecting natural environment. Safety
bars should be set up on both sides of motorways to prevent accidents. Rotaries
and median strips should be well designed for road safety and urban
landscaping. It is advisable to decorate the rotaries, median strips and flower
stands along roads with flowering plants and trees of our country, instead of
those that are neither congenial to the taste of our people nor found in our
country. Road signs, including direction signs, should be set up according to
the established international standards.
We should keep roads under
regular repair and maintenance. If we fail to do so, they cannot remain durable
and cultured. For proper maintenance of roads, it is necessary to establish a
scientific and well-regulated system of repairing and maintaining roads at periodical
intervals. Intensive care should be given to road repair particularly in the
thawing days and in the days when the rainy season ends; the roads should be
paved again and road structures and setups repaired, where necessary. Earth
roads should be repaired in the way of levelling them, and roadsides, slopes
and ditches kept in a good state of maintenance for the cultured aspect of
roads. We should plant trees on the sides of all roads, including motorways and
tourist roads, and make the areas surrounding them thick with trees and
flowers. Snow ploughs should also be provided to the major roads for the timely
removal of snow from them.
Road repair and maintenance
should be undertaken as a mass drive. We should assign factories, enterprises
and all other units with sections of roads to establish a well-regulated,
mass-based system of maintaining them. We should designate April and October as
periods for intensive repair of roads, and ensure that all the people take an
active part in the repairing and maintaining of roads out of patriotism and
with the awareness of being masters.
Railways of the country should
be improved. We should constantly push forward the work of raising the
intensity of railways. Pyongyang and North Phyongan Province are standing in the
van of this work. Provinces, cities and counties should put steady stress on
increasing the intensity of railways, and keep the railway stations and railway
environment in fine arrangement. For the present, as the General instructed in
his lifetime, the youth league and the youth shock brigade should complete the
reconstruction of the northern railways in the shortest period and in a
qualitative way.
We should be efficient in the
sea and coastal management.
Efficient sea and coastal
management is important in our country which is bounded on three sides by the
sea and has many rivers, lakes and reservoirs. Only when we are efficient in
the sea and coastal management can natural calamities be prevented, the
appearance of the country improved, and aquatic resources conserved and
increased.
Efforts should be directed to
building up the coasts. We should solidly build the various protection
facilities on the coasts, like embankments, so as to prevent damage from the
recurrent tidal waves and typhoons, regularly repair and maintain them, and
create windbreaks in a far-sighted way.
Along with this, the work for
conserving aquatic resources should be done well. We should set the volume of
aquatic production based on a scientific survey of their resources in all the
water areas, and ensure that the quota is not exceeded on any account. We
should exercise strict supervision and control to ensure that no organs are
allowed to catch fish in the season when fishing is prohibited according to
their species, catch fry or destroy their habitat by catching them by means of
prohibited fishing implements and methods that may inflict damage to aquatic
resources. Organs should actively perform the work of increasing aquatic
resources, like building facilities for aquaculture, spreading stones at the
bottom of water and releasing fry into the water areas under their charge.
We should do a good job of
environment and nature conservation.
Environment and nature
conservation is an important and responsible undertaking to make mountains and
rivers of the country more beautiful, conserve and increase natural resources,
protect people’s health and provide them with a better living environment. The
more society develops, the higher the people’s demand for environment and
nature conservation grows.
What is important in
environment conservation is to take thoroughgoing measures to prevent
pollution. Pollution is a source of natural environment contamination and
various diseases.
In order to prevent pollution,
air pollution should be prevented before anything else. Now some economic
officials are not proactive in this undertaking, claiming that there are many
technical problems to be solved and enormous funds are required if they were to
remove harmful gases and dust released from factories and enterprises,
including iron and steel works, smelteries, thermal power plants and chemical
factories; this is a manifestation of their lack of the serve-the-people
spirit. Factories and enterprises should provide the equipment and production lines
that release dust with dust-arresting, airtight and ventilation devices, repair
and maintain them at regular intervals, and upgrade them continuously.
Factories that release harmful gases and dust in large quantities should be
rearranged or moved to the areas outside cities and residential areas. Fallen
tree leaves and garbage should be taken out from institutions, enterprises,
streets, villages, parks, pleasure grounds, roads and the vicinity of railways
to certain areas or used for producing manure; they should refrain from
collecting them in any place and burning them, polluting the air.
Pollution of rivers, lakes and
seas should be prevented as well. For this, the industrial and city sewage from
factories, enterprises and residential areas should be purified before being
discharged. Factories, enterprises, cities and counties should build sewage
treatment plants by taking into account the amount of industrial and city
sewage and upgrade their equipment. In particular, mines should properly build
sediment basins so as to prevent ore dust or waste water from flowing into
rivers, lakes and seas. Water works, sewerage system and sewage treatment
facilities should be built ahead of others in urban construction in accordance
with the principle of giving priority to infrastructure over superstructure in
construction, so as to prevent environmental pollution. The units that put seas
and rivers into their use should have their ports, wharves, harbours and
vessels fully equipped with facilities for treating sewage and garbage. An
organic composite fertilizer factory has recently been built in Pyongyang; it
produces quality organic fertilizer by comprehensively treating sludge from the
Pothong River, sediment at the sewage treatment plants and slag.
If such factories
conducive to economic development and environment conservation are built, waste
from factories and cities can be efficiently treated, thus preventing the
environment from being polluted.
Various factors, including the
decrease of forest areas, are now contributing to destroying the ecological
environment across the world; this is leading to the gradual decrease of the
number of species of animals and plants, causing great anxiety among people. We
should make a regular survey of the species and habitat conditions of the
animals and plants that are found in mountains and river basins, and take
proactive steps to protect the endangered, rare and other biological species
and to preserve biodiversity. Meanwhile, we should properly define nature
reserves, increase their area step by step, and eliminate such practices as
setting up industrial buildings and facilities at random, exploiting
underground and forest resources or killing wild animals in these areas.
We should value the
underground resources of the country and actively conserve them. Some people
are now attempting to develop the valuable underground resources of the country
at random on this or that excuse to export them for not a great sum of foreign
exchange. This is an attitude lacking in far-sightedness and an expression of
lack of patriotism. A rigid system should be established of screening and
approving the development of underground resources of the country by the
Ministry of State Natural Resources Development and the non-permanent
Underground Resources Development Committee to ensure that unauthorized or
disorderly exploitation of underground resources is not revealed.
As land administration is a
very wide-ranging, gigantic and protracted undertaking, we have to work out a
scientific and reasonable masterplan for land development if we are to bring
about a revolutionary turn in this undertaking, and according to this, develop
land in a far-sighted and planned way.
Relevant sectors should
establish contact among themselves to map out masterplans for the whole
country, main regions, provinces, cities and counties, taking into detailed and
scientific account the climatic and soil conditions and natural resources in
different regions and the prospects of the economic and cultural development of
the country.
The masterplans for land
development are a law of the state nobody can violate. The sector of land
administration should establish strict discipline of undertaking land
development and management according to the masterplans. Provinces, cities and
counties should undertake their construction, development and resources
management in a responsible manner as required by the approved masterplans, and
should not carry out construction, develop resources or destroy ecological
environment in violation of the masterplans.
Land administration should be
conducted dynamically as a campaign involving the entire Party, the whole
country and all the people.
In order to bring about a
change in land administration, all the institutions, enterprises and cooperative
farms and all the officials and people should be enlisted in this work. Party
and working people’s organizations and people’s government organs should bring
home to Party members and other working people the fact that land
administration is a noble patriotic undertaking for the prosperity of their
country, their motherland, and their own happiness, and thus ensure that they
actively turn out in the work of laying out their native places with an
attitude befitting masters.
We should give clear-cut annual
tasks of land development projects, like tree-planting and river and road
improvement, to institutions, enterprises, cooperative farms and all other
units, and make a strong demand on them to ensure that they carry out the
tasks. Youth league organizations and educational institutes, like secondary
schools, colleges and universities, should intensify ideological education
among young people and students so that they would actively turn out in land
administration, and include land administration in their curricula and
implement them compulsorily.
While inspecting the KPA
units, General Kim Jong Il was most delighted when he saw their surroundings
kept neat and tidy and thickly wooded. The units of the KPA should improve the
roads and rivers and plant trees in large numbers in the areas where they are
stationed.
All the institutions,
enterprises and cooperative farms and all the people should be enlisted in land
administration during the general mobilization period for land administration.
We should designate the period from November to March the following year as the
period for protecting forests and underground resources, and from March to July
as the period for protecting useful animals, and ensure that during these
periods the entire Party, the whole country and all the people are involved in
conserving the nature of the country.
A brisk campaign should be
conducted to win the title of a model county in land and environment
protection. Cities and counties should vigorously wage this campaign under the
slogan “Let us further improve the appearance of our mountains, our rivers and
our own native places!” so as to effect a turn in land administration. Land
administration and environment conservation should be carried out in close
combination with the Three-Revolution Red Flag Movement and various other mass
movements.
It is important in land
administration and environment conservation to enhance the sense of
responsibility and role of the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection and
other related organs, and government organs. As the central organ which has
assumed before the Party and the state the responsibility for the overall land
administration of the country, the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection
should exercise unified control over all the work of land administration and
responsibly organize and conduct it in keeping with the requirements of the
Party’s policies and the state. Government organs should take in hand all the
work of land administration within the regions under their charge and undertake
it in a bold manner by mobilizing all the institutions, enterprises,
cooperative organs and people.
In order to push vigorously
ahead with land administration as a Party-wide, nation-wide and all-people
drive, it is imperative that the state provides supplies for it. Land
administration is a nature-harnessing project that requires large amounts of
equipment, materials and funds. The Cabinet, the State Planning Commission and
other relevant organs should draw up plans for the equipment, materials and
funds needed for land administration and environment protection across the
country, and ensure their smooth and timely supply.
Mass media should widely
explain and disseminate the Party’s policies, scientific and technological
information and common knowledge related with land administration and
environment conservation through newspapers, periodicals, the radio and TV so
as to heighten social interest in it.
Science and technology related
with land administration should rapidly be developed.
Scientific research
institutions in the sector of land administration and environment conservation
should dynamically conduct scientific research in line with the requirements of
the building of a thriving country, so as to fully solve in time and on a high
standard the scientific and technological problems arising in land
administration and environment conservation. In particular, they should direct
efforts to the scientific research geared to putting land protection,
afforestation and road and river improvement on a scientific and modern basis
and preventing air and water pollution. The sector of land administration and
environment conservation should organize scientific and technological forums on
a regular basis and publish more scientific and technological books and
periodicals, thus giving a strong impetus to the development of science and
technology in this sector.
We should briskly conduct
scientific and technological exchanges with other countries and international
organizations. In the sector of land administration and environment
conservation there are many things to be introduced from among the world trends
and foreign countries’ advanced technologies. As I said before, we should
encourage access to the world trends and advanced technologies of foreign countries
through the Internet and send delegations to foreign countries so that they can
learn necessary things from them and collect materials. The Ministry of Land
and Environment Protection and relevant organs should briskly conduct joint
research and academic and information exchanges with scientific research
institutions of other countries and participate in international conferences
and seminars, so as to positively introduce the advanced science and
technology.
We should firmly build up the
ranks of scientists and technicians in the sector of land administration and
environment conservation, provide them with sufficient conditions for
scientific research and adopt positive measures to introduce the scientific and
technological achievements into production and construction in time.
Supervision and control over
land administration and environment conservation should be intensified.
The organs of land and
environment protection and supervisory institutions should regularly supervise
and control every sector or unit over its implementation of the Party’s
policies on land administration and environment conservation and their
observance of laws and regulations, and further intensify legal control over
illegal practices. As far as land administration and environment conservation
are concerned, there can be no exception; any sector or any unit should be
placed under the control of the state. We should review all the laws and
regulations concerning land administration and environment conservation, and
amend or supplement them as required by the developing reality, so as to
intensify supervision and control over this work.
Party guidance over land
administration should be strengthened.
Party organizations should
vigorously enlist Party members and other working people in land administration
and environment conservation.
Land administration can bear
rich fruits only when the unlimited creative power of the masses of the people
is enlisted to the full. Party organizations should create an atmosphere of
general mobilization for land administration throughout society and conduct
vigorous organizational and political work to see to it that all Party members
and other working people actively turn out in this effort.
Senior Party officials,
including chief secretaries of provincial, city and county Party committees,
should take tree-planting, river improvement and road administration under
their direct charge and give them Party-oriented guidance. In particular, every
city or county chief Party secretary, who takes responsibility for the one
200th of the country, should be always mindful of the fact that proper land
administration in his or her city or county will help towards the overall land
administration of the country, and launch a bold drive to change the appearance
of the country in the spirit of blazing the trail. The appearance of a city or
county is a criterion with which to judge the sense of responsibility and
ability of its chief Party secretary.
By holding fast to the Party’s
policies on land administration, Party organizations should regularly acquaint
themselves with the implementation of the policies, review it and give new
tasks to give a Party-oriented impetus and assistance to their full
implementation.
The relevant department of the
Party Central Committee should strictly control and guide the general
mobilization drive for land administration in spring and autumn to ensure that
it is conducted briskly, and the Party and the state should properly review the
drive and evaluate its results every year. Provincial, city and county Party
committees and Party organizations at the relevant ministries and central
agencies should also review the problems arising in the utilization of forest
and aquatic resources and the exploitation of underground resources, and take
relevant measures during the annual review of the spring and autumn general
mobilization drive for land administration. Negligence of land administration
and environment conservation and failure to take an active part in this work
should be viewed as ideological faults resulting from lack of patriotism, and
be made a grave issue of.
Party organizations should
build up the ranks of officials in the sector of land administration and
environment conservation. Success or failure in land administration and
environment conservation depends largely on how the ranks of officials in this
sector, the direct undertakers, are built up and how their role is enhanced.
Party organizations should build up the ranks with competent persons who are
faithful to the Party, staunchly patriotic and possessed of specialized
technical knowledge, and lead them well so that they would keep to their
revolutionary posts entrusted by the Party and fulfil their responsibility and
role.
Our Party attaches great
importance to land administration and environment conservation, and demands
that the whole Party, the entire army and all the people conduct the general
mobilization movement for land administration more energetically so as to
spruce up the appearance of the country as befits a thriving country and make
active contributions to the building of an economic power and the improving of
the people’s living standards.
All the officials including those
in the sector of land and environment protection and other people should firmly
defend and exalt the brilliance of the ideas of President Kim Il Sung and
General Kim Jong Il on land development and their exploits, and vigorously step
up the building of a thriving socialist country by fanning the flames of the
general mobilization movement for land administration with burning loyalty to
the Party and ardent patriotism.
