Freed from the centuries-old feudalism, deprivation of political rights and social fetters, women in the DPRK are now revered as the genuine masters of the country and valuable beings partly in charge of the national and social development. With such extraordinary dignity and pride, they are now significantly marking the 79 th anniversary of the proclamation of the Law on Gender Equality.

With the exact same rights as men, women across the country are becoming deputies to the Supreme People’s Assembly where state affairs are dealt with. They are respected as heroines, doctors, innovators and flowers of family and society. Experiencing this dreamlike reality, they are expressing gratitude to the great President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il who opened up a new era of highly regarding and respecting women for the first time in history.

The great President Kim Il Sung put forth it as an important task to ensure human equality free from gender disparity, improve social treatment of women and respect their dignity. On July 30, 1946, he proclaimed the Law on Gender Equality.

Despite his busy schedule with many important state affairs, he paid great attention to prioritizing issues for relieving burdens on women, like providing water supply system in rural areas and opening rice-cooking shops and running nurseries in factories and farms and even to the trivial matters. And when women did something great, he showed big appreciation before anyone else and gave them great love and benevolence.

Saying that women are powerful force that advance the revolution and construction, the great Chairman Kim Jong Il built palaces of love in every part of the country including the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital and promoted the creation and dissemination of songs for women.

He established social atmosphere of loving and respecting women, even taking meticulous care of such small things as hairpins and cosmetics for them with paternal benevolence.

This is why the Korean women held high the banner of patriotic movements with a burning desire to live up to the great fatherly love. During the period of building of a new country, they conducted such patriotic movements such as cloth donation campaign and food-saving campaign. And in the period of the hard-fought war, they defended the battle line and home front at the cost of their lives. Even in the days of the Arduous March, they continued to walk along the path of patriotism without any deviation, keeping the happiness of their families at the cost of their sacrifice.

Today, the Korean women are enjoying priceless dignity and blessed life as a powerful force of national and social development and masters of the era as they hold in high esteem the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un as the father of the great socialist family.

He accorded the title of merited person of patriotism and hero of the country to countless women who are soundly devoting everything to the prosperity of the country. Warmly calling our women who take more trouble than anyone else for the country as the strongest and the most beautiful mothers in the world, he is giving them all benevolence he can provide.

In the western capitalist countries bragging of “modern civilization”, women are still falling victims to all kinds of violence and crime under systemized maltreatment and discrimination.

Witnessing the painful reality, the Korean women are loudly and proudly shouting to the world that they enjoy true life, happiness and bright future because they are upholding the great leader in high esteem.