President Kim Il Sung set an example by enforcing an agrarian reform at guerrilla bases during the anti-Japanese armed struggle.
On this basis, he put forward the agrarian reform as the prime task for democratic reforms after the liberation of Korea from Japan's colonial rule and promulgated the Agrarian Reform Law on March 5, Juche 35 (1946).
He saw to it that the agrarian reform should be carried out strictly on the principle of confiscation without compensation and distribution without charge in the rural areas under the slogan "Land to the tillers!".
Thanks to his energetic guidance, the agrarian reform was finished in a little over 20 days and thus more than one million hectares of land possessed by the Japanese imperialists and their stooges and landlords were distributed to poor peasants and farmhands of 720 000 households free of charge.
With this agrarian reform as a momentum, feudal land ownership and exploitation system were liquidated forever in the rural areas and an age-old dream of the peasants wanting to do farming in their own lands came into reality.
To repay the grateful favor of the President, the peasants reaped rich harvest in the first year after the enforcement of the Agrarian Reform Law.
The grain output in the northern half of Korea in 1946 reached more than 14.5 million soks (one sok is equal to approximately 5 bushels), an increase of 3.4 million soks as against 1945.
Kim Je Won, a peasant of South Hwanghae Province, donated 30 straw-bags of rice to give birth to the patriotic movement of donating grains.
Following him, as many as 16 000 peasants took part in the patriotic movement of donating grains in winter of 1946 to contribute to nation-building.
Indeed, the agrarian reform was a historic event that opened a new chapter in the solution of the rural question in the country. -0-
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