DPRK Marks International Women′s Day
Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- A national meeting took place at the People′s Palace of Culture here on Tuesday to mark the 101st International Women′s Day.
Attending it were Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People′s Assembly, Choe Ryong Hae, secretary of the C.C., the Workers′ Party of Korea, Kim Rak Hui, vice-premier of the Cabinet, and leading officials of working people′s organizations, women officials and women labor innovators.
Present on invitation were overseas Korean women, women from embassies of different countries and missions of international bodies here and foreign guests.
Ro Song Sil, chairwoman of the C.C., the Democratic Women′s Union of Korea, said in her report at the meeting that the unity and solidarity among the world progressive women have been strengthened in the struggle to oppose all sorts of domination and subordination and achieve national independence and social development for over a hundred years since the International Women′s Day was instituted.
The reporter recalled that the women′s movement in Korea has advanced along the road of victory and glory under the guidance of the peerlessly great persons.
In every period and stage of the revolution the Korean women fully displayed their indomitable stamina in the drive for prosperity of the country under the warm care of President Kim Il Sung, she said.
The women′s movement in Korea is now ushering in its heyday under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, the reporter said, adding:
Every page of the records on history of his revolutionary activities is run through with the undying feats he performed by developing the Korean women′s movement into a Juche-based movement faithful to the WPK′s cause of the Songun revolution.
The reporter called upon the Korean women to fulfill their mission and duty in defending socialism and achieving the prosperity of the country
Rodong Sinmun Calls on Korean Women to Demonstrate Revolutionary Stamina
Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun Tuesday editorially calls upon all the Korean women to fully demonstrate their revolutionary stamina in the general onward drive to open a gate to a thriving nation.
The Korean women enjoy good luck as they have carved out their destinies, leading a worthwhile life under the care of the great leader and the great party, the editorial says, and goes on:
The shining Korean women′s movement originated from the formation of the Anti-Japanese Women′s Association, the first Korean women′s revolutionary organization, under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung.
The Korean women have exercised equal rights with men since the President formed the Democratic Women′s Union of Korea and promulgated the law on sex equality.
Leader Kim Jong Il published many works, making sure that the immortal feats performed by the President before the women′s movement have been exalted. He also led the women to display their responsibility and role in the society and the revolutionary development.
Excellent is the ideological and moral world of the Korean women who have grown up under the care of the great leader and the great party.
The women play their role in the on-going drive for the great revolutionary surge with patriotism and loyalty and indomitable will. This include the women soldiers reliably defending the defense line of the country, firmly holding the arms of the revolution, the women at the Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex working hard to increase Juche-iron production along with smelters, women scientists doing their shares to make a breakthrough in the development of cutting-edge science and technology.
