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Activities against Desertification in Full Swing in DPRK

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

   Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is pushing ahead in full earnest with activities to implement the UN Convention to Combat Prevention of Desertification. The DPRK approved the convention in Juche 92 (2003) and started activities as its a member nation from April 2004.
    The government held a national workshop for implementing the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and working out a draft framework of a national action program last year as the first step to carry into practice the national duty according to the convention.
    After the national workshop, data of each sector has been compiled, the draft framework amended and supplemented and several consultative meetings were held to analyze and bring together the actual utility of land, reason of land degeneration and difficulties in the country. On the basis of this, the national action program and national report were drawn out in May 2006.
    Many contents of the action program for preventing land degeneration and realizing sustainable land management have already been reflected in government policies and are under implementation.
    The government of the DPRK has raised the issue to turn the whole country into forests and gardens through intensified afforestation and water conservancy, launching a campaign to mobilize all efforts in land management in spring and autumn.
    As a result, more than 130,000 hectares of forests are created and over 900 kilometer-long rivers and streams improved every year. Standardized fields, gravity-fed waterways come into being in the different parts of the country. And a foundation has been laid to produce more than a billion saplings a year.
    All the activities of the government shall be conducted for the purpose of duly meeting the demand of the socio-economic development by boosting the effectiveness of the sustainable land management and the use of natural resources in accordance with the concretized national action program.
    Meanwhile, a work is being promoted in earnest to set up such state coordination machinery as committee for promoting sustainable land management and advisory institution of scientists and technicians for land management.
    Various research institutes of the country are intensifying scientific research to prevent land degeneration this year.