International Women's Day marked in DPRK
KCNA
Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held in Pyongyang today to mark the 93rd anniversary of the International Women's Day (March 8).
Present were vice-president of the presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly Yang Hyong Sop, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Jung Rin and officials concerned and women from all walks of life and on invitation were wives of diplomats of foreign embassies here and other foreign women.
Pak Sun Hui, chairwoman of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, in a report said that the Korean women's movement was pioneered and has been triumphantly advanced by the three generals of Mt. Paektu.
President Kim Il Sung put forward the unique idea and theory on women's emancipation and movement on the basis of the immortal Juche idea and had brilliantly embodied them during the whole period of his revolutionary activity, the reporter noted, and went on:
Anti-Japanese war woman hero Kim Jong Suk had developed the women's movement of Korea into the Juche-oriented movement upholding the idea and line of the president and performed precious exploits in the work for the unified development of the movement and for the strengthening of international solidarity.
Kim Jong Il developed the movement on to a new higher stage under the banner of the army-centered policy while defending and glorifying the president's idea and feats of the women's movement and thus opened the heyday of the movement.
All the Korean women should hold Kim Jong Il in high esteem with loyalty, defend him politically and ideologically at the risk of their lives and thoroughly put his idea and line into practice.
The reporter called on all the Korean women to further develop the Juche-oriented Korean women's movement, united firm around Kim Jong Il, strengthen friendship and solidarity with all progressive women in the world aspiring after independence and vigorously struggle for world peace, the happiness of women and children and the building of an independent world free from all forms of domination and subordination.
The national meeting was followed by an art performance given by the art propaganda squad under the central committee of the union, women and children.
