Pyongyang, April 3 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea successfully carried out transformation of agriculture on socialist line in the early 1960s.

But the century-old feudalistic backwardness and poverty still remained in rural communities.

At that time President Kim Il Sung began working to acquaint himself with the overall agricultural situation to settle the rural question in the country.

In this regard, he told an official that the country was suffering difference between industry and agriculture, between the working class and the peasantry and between urban and rural communities.

He then underscored the need to find a key to minimizing the differences.

In Juche 52 (1963) alone, he made guidance tours of many rural communities in North and South Hwanghae, Ryanggang and South Phyongan provinces, in order to get details of the rural situation.

He convened a plenary meeting of heads of departments of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea in December that year, at which he delivered a historic speech "On Some Problems Arising in the Solution of the Socialist Rural Question".

At the meeting, he first gave analysis of the reason that some countries failed to properly settle rural questions and the lessons derived therefrom, putting forward the principles and ways for settling the socialist rural question in Korea.

He then made public a famous work "Theses on the Socialist Rural Question in Our Country" at the 8th Plenary Meeting of the Fourth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on February 25, 1964.

In the theses he indicated the principles, tasks and ways for rural construction on the basis of scientific analysis of the essence of the socialist rural question, the indispensable requirements of socialist rural construction and the nation's actual situation.

The theses were highly acclaimed in the country.

The drive for implementing the theses had swept the country, which paved a way for successful settlement of the rural question.

Rural communities underwent ideological, technical and cultural renovation and the state increased investment in agriculture.