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Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Famous Work Marked

KCNA

    Pyongyang, February 24 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture on Feb. 24 to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of President Kim Il Sung's famous work "Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in Our Country". Present at the meeting were senior officials of the Party and the state, chairpersons of the friendly parties, members of the Cabinet and other officials.
    A report was made by Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly.
    The reporter noted that the work, published by the President on Feb. 25, Juche 53 (1964), is a programme for socialist rural construction in this era on the basis of the Juche idea and an immortal work as it gives perfect answers to all the theoretical and practical issues arising in solving the rural question for the first time in history.
    The President established the best socialist agricultural system of Korean style and an agricultural guidance system and energetically led the struggle to implement the theses and his plan for socialist rural construction is being successfully carried out by leader Kim Jong Il, he said, and went on:
    Kim Jong Il consolidated the foundation for agricultural production and opened a bright prospect of satisfactorily solving the problem of food by leading the people to steadily push ahead with the rural construction under the banner of the socialist rural theses in the period of the "arduous march", the most difficult period of the Korean revolution.
    Thanks to the dynamic progress of the ideological and cultural revolution in the countryside the Korean agricultural workers have emerged reliable masters of socialist agriculture with a high level of ideological consciousness and creative ability, its material and technological foundation has grown stronger and the socialist agricultural system has been further consolidated. This is a great success made in the implementation of the rural theses.
    The reporter called for thoroughly implementing the theses as required by the Songun era to glorify Kim Il Sung's idea of socialist rural construction and his exploits for all ages.
    The agricultural workers should absolutely follow and thoroughly implement the Songun idea based on the Juche idea, the reporter noted, and continued:
    The main task for solving the rural question at present is to bring about a signal turn in agricultural production and technology. The agricultural productive structure of the country should be boldly improved on the principle of a right crop to the right soil and a right crop in the right time as required by the Juche-based method of farming, a radical turn be effected in seed selection and in potato farming and double-cropping be developed on a large scale on the basis of latest science and technology to decisively increase the grain production.
    Sustained great efforts should be channeled into to the land realignment and the construction of nature-driven waterways be energetically pushed forward in various areas to complete the nation's irrigation system in conformity with the need of the new century.
    The agro-scientific and technological revolution should be stepped up in keeping with the trend of development in the new century to industrialize, modernize and scientize agriculture and realize its comprehensive mechanization as early as possible.
    The reporter called on all the agricultural workers to implement the theses to the letter, bring about a radical boost in agricultural production and overall socialist rural construction and thus make a positive contribution to glorifying the 21st century as a century of Kim Jong Il.