The President paid a primary attention to agrarian reform, while guiding the effort for democratic reforms in all spheres of social life after the country's liberation from the Japanese colonial rule.

At that time, peasants made up the overwhelming majority of the population in the country and most of them had no land for farming.

It was impossible without properly solving the land issue to liberate the peasants from the feudal exploitation and subordination, make them genuine masters of the new society and develop all economic sectors with increased agricultural production.

For a successful agrarian reform, the President visited farms and met peasants to acquaint himself with their actual conditions.

He defined only Japanese imperialists, pro-Japanese elements, traitors and landlords with more than five hectares of arable land as targets of elimination.

He considered as allies those who, though owning some hectares of land, rendered service to the anti-Japanese struggle and the development of national culture or did farming by themselves.

After confirming all issues concerning the agrarian reform, he promulgated the "Law on Agrarian Reform in North Korea" on March 5, Juche 35 (1946).

The law realized the peasants' long-cherished desire for their own land.