Analysis North Korea’s Tree-planting Day highlights nationwide nursery projectsSatellite imagery reveals scope of long-stalled provincial tree nurseries seeing renewed push since 2018 North Korea has long promoted reforestation efforts as a key national undertaking, with state media often discussing various new tree nursery facilities to boost seedling and sapling production at every administrative level. To celebrate National Tree-planting Day on Monday this week, state media even announced that sapling production capacity had doubled since 2015 due to these efforts, and that progress is being made on new facilities across the country. NK Pro has identified the largest of these tree nursery complexes still under construction at the beginning of this year but which appear to be nearing completion © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |