ACTIVITIES OF VICTIMS OF AGRARIAN REFORM IN NORTH KOREA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R007100670004-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 30, 2005
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: April 5, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Korea.
SUBJECT Activities of Victims of Agrarian reform in
North Korea
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As a result of th+ Forth Korean land reforms of 19146, which confiscated .id re-
distributed priva o holdings over three hectares, many landlorls who were dis-
possessed fled to the 'iepu'.blic of Korea, any landlords who remained in `,;ze
north were impove: ;; i hed and even imprisoned. ' "here was no consistent regi l.ation
of land conf iscat: is9 and the committees handling the matter w ere often m (ie
-tip of indigent arr. unemployed persons or poor tenant farmers vih) distribu.xt? i
land arbitrarily . favor of their own members and penalized al. landlor:is.. 3gard
less of their des~.~tso
2,, -:;hen the .'orth :::can forces retreated in September, many of the expelled lt!itd
.ords Joined the . dvancing T. forces or followed there north to t irir former
holdings with ti,? purpose of regainin- their confiscated lands. . n revenge or
the unfair and 'r were treatment to which they had been subjected x.=nder the C.
munist regime, .; .ey. not only regained their property but coinmai`:te i outrages on
some of the ex?. atives of the agrarian reform who did not retreat with their ar.?ies
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