Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- All the people of the DPRK are recollecting the peerlessly great men's undying feats for socialist rural construction on the occasion of the day when the agrarian reform law was promulgated to realize the long-cherished desire of the Korean peasants for the first time in the 5 000-year-long history of the nation.

After the liberation of Korea from the Japanese colonial rule, President Kim Il Sung, in consideration of the earnest desire of the peasants to farm on their own lands, set the agrarian reform as the primary task in carrying out the democratic reforms.

He sat knee to knee with peasants and acquainted himself with the actual conditions in the countryside and the demands of the peasants, confirming each item of the agrarian reform law.

On the basis of such preparations, he promulgated the agrarian reform law on March 5, Juche 35 (1946).

Under his leadership, the agrarian reform was carried out in a little more than 20 days and more than one million hectares of land distributed to over 720 000 households of poor and hired peasants free of charge.

Chairman Kim Jong Il published "On Thoroughly Implementing Our Party's Policy on Agricultural Revolution" and other works to indicate the theoretical and practical issues arising in socialist rural construction.

With the noble idea that improving the layout of fields is a patriotic work of lasting significance for the prosperity and development of the country, he victoriously guided the grand nature-remaking project to completely eliminate the remnants of feudal land ownership.

As a result, hundreds of thousands of hectares of land were improved as befitting the land of socialist Korea.

The Chairman advanced the original policy of bringing about a revolution in agriculture and aroused the whole Party, the entire army and all the people to the implementation of the policy, thus making progress in the development of the country's agriculture.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un opened a grand new era of rural revolution and rural development for the progress and change of the socialist countryside.

In his report at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea "Let Us Open up a New Great Era of Our Style Socialist Rural Development", he provided the guidelines to be adhered to in socialist rural construction.

The present reality, in which modern rural dwelling houses are being built every year, is a precious fruition of devoted service to the people and energetic guidance of the great father, who set forth the programme for the rural revolution in the new era to rapidly develop the socialist countryside and has wisely led the struggle for its realization. -0-