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Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Land Realignment in S. Phyongan Province

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, March 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, gave field guidance to the land realignment in South Phyongan Province. He was accompanied by Vice Marshal of the Korean People's Army Ri Yong Mu, vice-chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong, Col. General Ri Pyong Sam and Ri Yong Chol, first vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK.
    He was greeted on the spot by Ri Thae Nam, chief secretary of the South Phyongan Provincial Committee of the WPK, Pak Yong Hun, chairman of the South Phyongan Provincial Rural Economy Committee, and others.
    The province has turned at least 87,000 hectares of land into fields of standardized shapes in a matter of two years, removing hundreds of thousands of small patches of paddies and ridges between paddy fields extending tens of thousands of ri. As a result, there appeared everywhere in the province a vast expanse of land reminiscent of a large plain in the era of the Workers' Party, changing the province's appearance beyond recognition as required by the new century.
    Going round Mubon Plain in Jungsan County, Mayong Plain in Onchon County and other places of the province, Kim Jong Il acquainted himself in detail with the land realignment.
    He praised the servicepersons and volunteers who have taken part in the land realignment project as dependable and proud performers of exploits as they fulfilled the vast tasks in a short span of time, valiantly overcoming all sorts of trials under difficult conditions where they were hard pressed for everything. Our cause of building a great prosperous powerful nation is sure to be accomplished with success as we have such an admirable army and people, he said.
    He advanced highly important tasks which would serve as guidelines in accelerating and completing the land realignment to give face-lifting to the land and bring about an epochal turn in the agricultural production.
    If the land realignment is brought to an end in the province, it will be completed in the major granaries of the country in the main, he said, stressing the need for the remaining provinces to exert all their efforts to successfully carry out this work in a short span of time.
    He set forth tasks to increase the grain production.
    As a solid foundation has been laid in the province to steadily increase the grain production thanks to the completion of the land realignment and the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong waterway project, all the people should work hard with the firm determination to bring about a great leap in the agricultural production, he noted.
    He put forward tasks to realize the mechanization and widely use chemicals in agriculture.
    Noting that mechanization and an extensive use of chemicals in the farm work are heavy yet honorable revolutionary tasks to be carried out in the present generation on all accounts, he earnestly called for providing the generations to come with a socialist land of bliss good to live in and work.
    Underscoring the need to successfully carry out the project for reclaiming the Kum Song tideland under a long-term plan to build a large modern farm there as wished by President Kim Il Sung, he set forth tasks and ways to do so.