Politics

The Law on Sex Equality was promulgated in the DPRK on July 30 1946.

On the day the DPRK women put an end to the subordinate position they had accepted as unavoidable for a long time and opened up a new dramatic chapter in their destiny and life.

If a society is to run properly, women who account for half of the population should play their role satisfactorily.

Once when he recollected the anti-Japanese war women fighters who had dedicated their lives, youth and families to the sacred war for the country’s liberation, President Kim Il Sung said that his argument that women turn one of the two wheels of the revolution is not an abstract concept, but is based on the anti-Japanese revolutionary history dyed with blood and his real experience as the direct participant in and witness to the Korean women’s liberation movement.

In retrospect, many Korean women led an honourable life as patriots and revolutionaries as they worked to turn one of the two wheels of the revolution under the love and trust of the President and Chairman Kim Jong Il.

In the period of the fierce war when women at the front fought to defend every inch of the territory of country at the cost of their blood, those in the rear ploughed farmland in place of men and did farming in the face of heavy bombings by the enemy planes to send food to the front and stood on ammunition boxes and operated the lathes till their hands got bruises in the tunnels where water dripped from the ceilings to produce bullets and shells and send them to the front.

Once, a weaver heroine in the Chollima era said:

“...One evening my mother saw me practise knotting with a ball of thread at home and said:

“‘Before national liberation I spun thread all night to provide for the family, but you try hard to weave more cloth for the people.’

“Her words made me think a lot. I felt a lump in my throat with a thought that the life of us, women, who had only worked for their children and families in the tough times, took a dramatic turn. I had nothing to spare for the benevolent Workers’ Party of Korea and the country that ensured our women, who had to wear a skirt in turn between three generations before the country’s liberation, are beautifully clothed and learn to their hearts’ content….”

A “red motivator” raised high the torch of the transformation of people along communist lines and the crew of the fishing boat “Young Heroine, Daughter of the Workers’ Party of Korea” caught a big haul of fish by sailing through the wild sea. They were all young girls.

A working woman is seen in the Chollima Statue symbolizing the great Chollima era of the DPRK, which startled the world, and the three-person group sculpture of the Tower of the Juche Idea symbolic of the Juche idea, the immortal banner of the world progressive humankind aspiring after independence, representing DPRK women unsparingly devoting passion, wisdom and efforts to the accomplishment of the sacred cause of independence for the masses of the people as proud master of the state and society.

The DPRK women have performed remarkable feats for the country, people and rising generations over the past 10-odd years during which brilliant changes have taken place in the international position of the country and the accomplishment of the cause of socialism.

In the farm fields high-yield women farmers are found, who contribute to the sacred cause of patriotism with increased grain production, in factories and enterprises there are women officials and labour innovators who work hard to overfulfil their tasks in order to help others and in scientific research bases and educational institutions competent and prominent women doctors and educators play their part.

What they all keep in mind is the firm resolve to repay with honest endeavour the favours bestowed on them by the Party and the country that spare nothing for the women.