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President Kim Il Sung's Feats in Agrarian Reform

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- March 5 is the 58th anniversary of the promulgation of the law on agrarian reform in Korea. Now the Korean people are recollecting the immortal feats performed by President Kim Il Sung in carrying out agrarian reform just after the liberation of the country in August 1945.
    At that time, peasants accounted for 80 percent of the country's population. But in north Korea, alone, landlords who made up only four percent in all the farmhouses were owning 58.2 percent of the arable land.
    The peasants' long-cherished desire was to have their own land to do farming.
    Taking their desire into account, Kim Il Sung set the agrarian reform as a primary task and wisely guided the efforts to carry it out.
    He visited various local areas including Taedong County, South Phyongan Province, and spent more than a month among peasants to acquaint himself with the situation of the countryside and the earnest demand of the peasants for land. During the days, he made an accurate analysis of the feudal landownership and decided on those who should be deprived of land, and ways of confiscating and distributing their land and doing away with the tenant system for good. Basing himself on the land programme he laid down in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and on rich experience he gained in the efforts for its implementation, he completed the law on agrarian reform.
    "Law on Agrarian Reform in North Korea" worked out by him was promulgated as a law of the Provisional People's Committee of North Korea on March 5, Juche 35 (1946).
    The agricultural working people in the country significantly commemorate March 5 every year to hand down Kim Il Sung's undying feats down through generations.