Into Eternal Owners of the Land 

  The promulgation of the law on agrarian reform in the country was a historic event that abolished the exploitative land ownership, which had been deeply rooted in the rural areas for tens of thousands of years and that brought about a radical turn in the destiny of the peasants.
Before the promulgation of the law, Kim Il Sung visited many rural areas to meet peasants and acquainting himself with the rural situation in detail, and made careful preparations for its implementation.
One day in late February 1946, he dropped in at a low-roofed thatched house in a village.
After listening to host’s story while sitting knee to knee with him, he said: The peasants would live well with their own land from now; the land ought to have been owned by the peasants who till it; but the world had been changed for a long time; we should change the world where the peasants, who make painstaking efforts to till the land, have no land and landowners, who never work, own large areas of land under cultivation.
Kim Il Sung, who read the centuries-old desire of the peasants in this country and put them forward as masters of a new liberated country and eternal owners of land, was a genuine peerless patriot and great benefactor.