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Origin of Nature-Remaking in DPRK

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, May 20 (KCNA) -- President Kim Il Sung initiated the River Pothong improvement project, first of its kind in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as an important work for building a new Korea. On May 21, Juche 35 (1946), he broke the ground for the project. Before the liberation of the country (1945), the river had been flooded in rainy season every year, submerging lots of houses and cultivated land. Addressing the ground-breaking ceremony, he said that the project should be carried out successfully to mark the start of the nature-remaking work for building a rich and powerful democratic and independent state.
    Greatly inspired by his speech, Pyongyang citizens completed the project, in which they had to build a five-kilometer-long dam with transport of more than 420,000 cubic meters of earth, in a matter of 55 days.
    The completion of the project freed the River Pothong from flood once and for all and renewed the looks of Pyongyang.
    Along the River Pothong, a ten-kilometer-long canal was dug, recreation grounds with a total area of more than 300 hectares appeared and many grand monumental edifices such as the People's Palace of Culture, Pyongyang Indoor Stadium, Ice Rink and Changgwang Health Complex constructed.
    The grand nature-remaking, initiated by the President, has been accelerated on a larger scale under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    He said that the land-rezoning project is a part of the grand nature-remaking for the development of the country and a patriotic work for the posterity. True to his instruction, the Korean people have converted small plots of the country into vast standardized fields in a short span of time.
    Such nature-remaking projects as the construction of the natural-flow Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway and the Youth Hero Motorway have changed the looks of the country.