Pyongyang, November 14 (KCNA) -- Thousands of hectares of new land has been obtained in the DPRK through the rezoning of hundreds of thousands of hectares of land over the last ten years.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il opened up a broad vista to readjust land in the countryside as befits land of socialist Korea on the side of a paddy field in Taebaek-ri, Changdo County, Kangwon Province in May Juche 87 (1998).

Later, more than 200,000 hectares of land was rezoned in Kangwon, North Phyongan and South Hwanghae Provinces, reducing over 91,000 kilometers of levees to more than 53,000 kilometers and upwards of 1,515,000 parcels of rice-field to 557,000 or more. This gave more than 6,120 hectares of new land.

1,530 hectares were added to the arable land in South Phyongan Province and Pyongyang City with the readjustment of more than 94,400 hectares of land.