The DPRK regards the protection of environment as an important and responsible undertaking for further beautifying the country’s mountains and rivers, maintaining and increasing the resources, protecting the people’s health and providing them with better conditions for living.
After adopting its Law on Environment Protection, the DPRK conducts the environment protection as an all-people drive through the land and environmental protection months like general mobilization for land management month, reforestation month and city beautification month in a prospective and planned way.
First of all, it thoroughly takes measures to prevent pollution which contaminates the natural environment and causes various kinds of diseases.
It is important to protect the air-contamination in preventing the pollution.
The DPRK is directing great efforts to equip dust-rising machines and production processes with dust cleaner, air-tight and ventilation devices, putting maintenance on a normal basis and ceaselessly modernizing them.
And the fallen leaves and litters on the streets, villages, parks, resort areas, roads and railways are not burnt but transported to some areas to make them manures.
The DPRK is also making measures to keep rivers, lakes and seas from being polluted.
It makes sure that industrial wastes and sewage from factories, enterprises and residential areas are purified before making them flow to the rivers and the sewerage system and waste water treatment plants are built before other building projects in the city construction so as to thoroughly prevent environmental pollution.
By building an organic compound fertilizer plant which processes in an integrated way the sludge, lodgment and slag to produce organic fertilizer with high quality, it vigorously conducts those favorable to the economic development and environmental protection.
The DPRK is also paying deep attention to the protecting of the ecological environment.
Now the fact that the area of the global forest is decreased by several factors, ecological environment is destructed and the species of animals and plants are reduced arouses great worry from the public.
The DPRK takes proactive measures to research on a normal basis the species of animals and plants distributed to its mountains and river basins and protect the living sorts including the animals and plants in danger of extinction and those rare.
In order to protect natural environment, it conducts in a brisk way various pro-environmental activities like forestation and its maintenance, tree- and grass-planting and river improvement projects.
By positively adopting the advanced technologies of other countries and further developing science and technology in the pro-environmental sector, it makes great efforts to provide its people with the most favorable natural environment.
At present the DPRK has been spruced up into a socialist fairyland, by making the brisk social movement of protecting environment under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and the people have been provided with natural environment more favorable to their existence and activities day by day.
