It was in the afternoon on October 10, 1950, at the height of the severe Fatherland Liberation War.
Kim Jong Il sincerely planted pine-nut trees with his younger sister in commemoration of the meaningful day when President Kim Il Sung founded the Workers’ Party of Korea.
When his sister asked whether pine-nut was a good tree, Kim Jong Il explained its advantages in detail to his sister. He told her that, although the trees were young, they could grow up high and produce lots of pine nuts if they watered them and took care of them everyday. He also told her to come there with the President, who would be very pleased to see the pine-nut trees which they had planted.
Next day when an official left for the supreme headquarters, he told the official that it is necessary to plant ten and a hundred trees if the enemy burns one tree so as to make the mountains and fields green. He said in a confident voice that the country would be most prosperous in the world at the time when the trees grew fresh and green.
The two pine-nut trees he had planted on Mt. Jangja scores of years ago has grown up into big ones and their seeds spread all over the mountains of the country forming now a thick green pine-nut forest.
