On this anniversary, people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea recall the undying feats President Kim Il Sung performed to gratify the Korean peasants' cherished desire for doing farming on their own land.

The agrarian reform, which the President had sought from his early days of revolutionary activities, put an end to the feudal land ownership and exploitation in rural communities.

During the anti-Japanese armed struggle, he authored celebrated works "The Path of the Korean Revolution" and "The Ten-Point Programme of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland", expounding the ideas and theories on the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution. And he saw to it that land was distributed to peasants free of charge in the guerilla zone.

Soon after the country's liberation from the Japanese colonial rule, he considered the agrarian reform enforcement to be a primary task in carrying out overall democratic reforms and paid big efforts to its effect.

Under the slogan "Land to the tillers!", he correctly defined the objects of land confiscation, seeing to it that land confiscation and distribution was done strictly free of charge.

As a result, 1 000 325 hectares of the cultivated land were confiscated from pro-Japanese elements including traitors and landlords and 981 390 hectares of them distributed to 724 522 households.

The reform served as a milestone in building an independent and sovereign state in Korea.