[citation needed] The Theses set out an application of Kim Il Sung's Three Revolutions Movement [ko] on agriculture.

[citation needed] The Theses laid out a framework for the first North Korean agricultural and environmental policy that was indigenous and ideological.

[4] The Theses were a change of paradigm in the way North Korean agricultural policy was thought,[4] and remains Kim's most referenced work on the subject.

[5] Robert Winstanley-Chesters calls it a "rare thing among North Korean texts, a piece of acutely coherent and systematic writing and thinking".

[10] In August 1962, Kim Il Sung led a joint conference of local party and economic officials which convened in Changsong County, North Pyongan Province.

[11] The Theses were formally accepted by the eight plenum of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea on 25 February 1964.

[12] According to the Theses, agricultural development was to be done by applying Kim's Three Revolutions Movement [ko]: evoking ideological, cultural and technological change.

Instead of practices of modern agronomy such as established soil and hybridization research, Kim Il Sung meant a Juche type education: farmers should embody the "creativity" of the masses, "work around shortages", and solve all problems independently.

[14] The Theses rapidly and widely transformed North Korean agriculture[14] from what used to be a traditional economy relying on crop rotation, organic fertilizer and [15] gravity-fed irrigation,[14] to a modern one.

[15] The Theses are extensively referenced in North Korean literature, and many foundational texts trace legitimacy back to it.

The latter, as his first published work, authored On Effecting a Drastic Turn in Land Management to Meet the Requirements for Building a Thriving Socialist Nation in 2012.