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Story of Kim Jong Suk
Pyongyang, November 19 (KCNA) -- One spring day in Juche 35 (1946) when an agrarian reform was carried out in Korea, Kim Jong Suk, an anti-Japanese heroine, went to then Sinhung-ri of Kophyong-myon, Taedong County, South Phyongan Province.

She met peasants who had their long-cherished desire for land realized, and encouraged them to do farming well. She then took a basket with grain seeds and a hoe in her hands and entered a field.

The peasants tried to hold her from doing farm work. But she, with a broad smile on her face, told them she was very happy to sow the field just after the agrarian reform.

After engaging in sowing without a break, she came out of the field at noon and had a conversation with the peasants.

A woman who had slaved for a landlord as a farmhand was given 5 000 phyong (a phyong is 3.954 sq. yds.) of fertile land thanks to President Kim Il Sung. Listening to her, Kim Jong Suk said it was really a fantastic story.

She also said the President had fought against the Japanese imperialists for many years to realize the peasants' ardent desire and, after the liberation of the country, promulgated the agrarian reform law to distribute land to them.

Her remark was kept deeply in their mind as a seed of happiness.

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