Pyongyang, January 31 (KCNA) -- A tree nursery has been successfully built in Kaesong Municipality of the DPRK.

The tree nursery, located in a place favorable for sapling cultivation along with office building, seed selection and sowing ground, substrate-producing ground, greenhouse made with plastic sheets and welfare facilities, is another material and technical foundation for regional afforestation.

Present at its inauguration ceremony on January 30 were officials concerned, builders and employees of the tree nursery.

Choe Kyong Nam, chairman of the Kaesong Municipal People's Committee, addressed the ceremony to be followed by speeches.

The speakers stressed the need for all the officials and working people to devote all their patriotic efforts and passion to covering the mountains in the municipality with green woods, true to the Workers' Party of Korea's policy of land management.

At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round various places of the tree nursery. -0-