Born into the revolutionary family of Mangyongdae which had led a tenant's life generation after generation, the President was well aware of the desire of the peasants to have their own land and put his heart and soul into the struggle for realizing their desire to become the master of land from the first days since he started revolutionary activities.

He illuminated the way for freeing the peasants from the feudal fetters in his famous works including "Path of the Korean Revolution" and "The Ten-point Programme of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland" published in the period of the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle. And he saw to it that land was distributed to the peasants free of charge and democratic reforms were enforced for the interests of the working masses in the guerrilla bases founded along theTuman River.

Right after the liberation of the country he set forth the agrarian reform as the foremost task in the enforcement of all the democratic reforms and advanced an original policy for successfully carrying out the agrarian reform under the slogan "Land to the tillers!"

The policy reflecting the then subjective and objective conditions at the stage of the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution was a unique and wise one fundamentally differing from the socialist reform of nationalizing the land and the bourgeois reform of privatizing the land.

In accordance with this policy, the Agrarian Reform Law was promulgated in the DPRK on March 5, Juche 35 (1946).

The agrarian reform was a great event of historical significance which made the peasants, once exploited and humiliated, a creator of history and afforded freedom and happiness to them.

With the successful enforcement of the historic agrarian reform, the Korean peasants got rid of the feudal shackles once and for all and came to enjoy to their heart's content an independent and creative worthwhile life as the master of land and their destiny.