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Socialist Earth Boasting of History of Dramatic Turn

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- Today the land of the DPRK is taking on a new look conforming to the requirements of the Songun era.
    Standardized fields and waterways of natural flow tell the immortal feats of the peerless great persons in the dramatic turn of the socialist land.
    After liberation President Kim Il Sung regarded the solution of the land problem as the most important task in the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution. He laid it down as an important task in democratic reforms and wisely led the struggle for its fulfillment.
    He promulgated "Law on Agrarian Reform in North Korea" on March 5, Juche 35 (1946), thus setting up the peasants once maltreated and humiliated as the masters of land.
    The agrarian reform was carried out in a matter of 20-odd days after its promulgation. It was an epoch-making event in which the land owned by the landlords who accounted for mere 4 percent of the total farm households was confiscated without compensation and distributed free to the masses of peasants who made up more than 80 percent of the north Korean population.
    He also opened a new history of irrigation on this land to satisfy the age-old desire of the peasants, now the master of land, for water.
    Under his wise leadership the Phyongnam, Ojidon and other irrigation channels were successfully built to turn the country into "a land of irrigation".
    The exploits performed by the President in the turn of the earth of socialism have been carried forward successfully under the leadership of Kim Jong Il. Regarding land rezoning as a gigantic nature-remaking project and a patriotic cause of eternal value for the prosperity of the country, Kim Jong Il put forth the original idea of land rezoning to glorify the President's feats in the agrarian reform through all ages and ultimately wipe out the remaining feudal features of land and led its realization at the head.
    True to his grandiose idea, soldiers and people of the country transformed the farmland in Kangwon Province and then in North Phyongan and South Hwanghae Provinces, Pyongyang city and South Phyongan Province into large standardized fields by giving full play to the revolutionary soldier spirit to unfold a new history of a great transformation of nature.
    In February Juche 86 (1997) General Secretary Kim Jong Il spread a blueprint to convert the irrigation system in the western coastal area into a waterway system of natural flow suitable to the features of standardized fields.
    According to it, the Kaechon-Thaesong Lake and the Paekma-Cholsan waterways, the largest in scale in the nation's history of irrigation construction, took shape as monumental structures worthy of being a pride in the Songun era.
    The national historic feats of the peerless great persons associated with the socialist land will shine through generations along with Songun Korea.