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National Meeting Marks 80th Anniversary of Peasants' Union

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

   Pyongyang, March 10 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the Central Workers' Hall Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the formation of the Peasants' Union by President Kim Il Sung.
    Present there were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, leading officials of the working people's organizations, officials concerned, officials of the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea and members of the union.
    Kang Chang Uk, chairman of the Central Committee of the union, in a report said that Kim Il Sung set forth a unique idea that peasants constitute part of a driving force for revolution together with the working class, considering the peasants' issue as a fundamental one in carrying out a social revolution after embarking upon the path of revolution in his early years.
    Kim Il Sung formed the Peasants' Union, the revolutionary peasants organization, the first of its kind in Korea, in Xinantun on March 10, Juche 17 (1928) and, on the basis of its experience, founded the Peasants' Union of North Korea, the single mass political organization of peasants, after the country's liberation and later strengthened and developed it into the Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea, the mass political organization of socialist agricultural workers, the reporter said, and continued:
    The Peasants' Union creditably discharged its historic duty in the efforts to carry out the agrarian reform after the country's liberation, in the drive to increase the grain production and the work to aid the front during the Fatherland Liberation War and in the struggle to transform agricultural management on socialist lines in the post war period of the socialist revolution under the leadership of Kim Il Sung.
    The Union of Agricultural Workers of Korea has dynamically waged the ideological, technical and cultural revolutions in rural areas under the uplifted banner of the "Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in Our Country" authored by Kim Il Sung, thus pushing forward the work to revolutionize and working-classize the farmers and the socialist rural construction and making a positive contribution to settling the rural question.
    The noble exploits Kim Il Sung performed by forming the revolutionary peasants' organization and settling the rural question have been successfully carried forward and put on a new higher level by General Secretary Kim Jong Il, the reporter said.
    He underlined the need for all the agricultural workers and members of the union to deeply grasp Kim Il Sung's idea of building the revolutionary peasants' organization and his exploits performed in leading it and firmly defend and glorify the shining history and tradition of the Korean peasants' movement pioneered and led by Kim Il Sung.
    He also called on all the agricultural workers and the union members to bring about a fresh surge in the agricultural production, a great foundation for building a great prosperous and powerful nation, in hearty response to the militant call of the WPK to wage a general offensive for building an economic power.