Rodong Sinmun Wednesday stresses this in an editorial dedicated to the 45th publication anniversary of the President's work "Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in Our Country".

The work comprehensively clarifies the principled matters arising in accelerating the socialist rural construction ranging from the matter of energetically making the three revolutions, ideological, technical and cultural, in the countryside to the work to boost the agricultural production and increase the assistance to the countryside.

The editorial says that the above-said theses authored by the President is an immortal great programme as it paves a wide avenue for finally solving the rural question and winning the complete victory of socialism.

The publication of the rural theses provided a guiding principle for solving the socialist rural question, the first of its kind in history, and brought about a great turn in the ideological and moral traits of the agricultural workers and the development of agriculture in the DPRK, it notes, and goes on:

The President's idea and desire for the socialist rural construction have become a shining reality under the wise leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Kim Jong Il authored "The Position and Role of a County in Socialist Construction" and many other works, clearly indicating the orientation and ways for settling the rural question and has devoted great wisdom and efforts to making sure that the vitality of the said theses was fully displayed.

It is his unshakable will to cement the material and technical foundations of the countryside and radically increase the agricultural production and thus successfully build a great prosperous and powerful country where its people live with nothing to desire more, as intended and desired by the President.

Over the last ten odd years Kim Jong Il advanced the Juche-oriented policies of agricultural revolution, including the policies of bringing about a radical turn in the improvement of seed, double cropping and cultivation of potato and bean, and he has energetically led the drive to carry them into practice. Under his wise guidance, sure guarantee has been provided to effect a new epoch-making turn in the socialist rural construction and the agricultural production in the country.