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Anniversary of Law on Sex Equality observed

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 30 (KCNA) -- The Korean women should become true women revolutionaries who are glorifying the Songun era. Papers here today say this in editorials dedicated to the 57th anniversary of the promulgation of the Law on Sex Equality.
    President Kim Il Sung worked out and promulgated "Law on Sex Equality in North Korea" on July 30, 1946.
    The law stipulates that the women can freely participate in the political, economic and cultural life of the country completely free from all forms of mediaeval humiliation and inequality.
    The promulgation of the law brought about a fundamental change in the social position and role of the Korean women, an editorial of Rodong Sinmun says, and goes on:
    Since then, they have stoutly grown to be the genuine pillars of the country, women revolutionaries who are pushing one of the wheels of the revolutionary chariot and played as important a role as the men have done in each period and at each stage of the revolution and construction.
    The position and role of the Korean women have risen remarkably, the editorial notes, stressing it is high honour and great pride for the Korean women, once humiliated and oppressed after being marginalized by society, to have emerged a powerful force defending socialism and pushing forward the building of a great prosperous powerful nation, sharing the intention and destiny with the leader of the revolution.
    The Korean women will always remember the immortal feats of Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il who provided them with the most dignified and proud life, it notes.
    It calls on the women to remain true to the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il and make an active contribution to building a great prosperous powerful nation by proving their worth in their work with burning patriotic enthusiasm.
    Minju Joson in an editorial calls upon the women to energetically push one of the wheels of the revolutionary chariot as befitting the Korean women in the Songun era steered by Kim Jong Il and display once again the revolutionary stamina of the Korean women.