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Model of Korean Women in Songun Era

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- The people of the DPRK are extending warm congratulations on the occasion of the International Women's Day, first of all, to the wives of army officers, flowers in the Songun era.
    They are leading a worthwhile life as revolutionary comrades of their husbands in military uniforms guarding the defense line of the country at the posts in remote mountainous areas and on isolated islands.
    Girls in the Changgwangsan Hotel left Pyongyang to marry officers in the forefront units in Juche 86 (1997), when the country had to undergo grave ordeals. This fact fully showed the beautiful spiritual world of the Korean women.
    The officers' wives who prefer the sweat-soaked uniforms of their husbands to luxury are finding their happiness in the Songun revolution.
    As they devote themselves to soldiers, the latter calls them "our elder sister" or "our mother".
    Officers' wives are taking an active part in the mass cultural and artistic activities for the Songun era, creating examples to be followed.
    The annual contest of art groups of servicepersons' families, which raised its curtain ten years ago, is making a great contribution to establishing optimistic living atmosphere throughout the country.
    In their performances last year, the participants demonstrated their firm will to live and fight as befitting to the cook of the supreme headquarters and the revolutionary of the Songun era, always bearing in mind those days when they covered the "Arduous March" and forced march, along with their leader. A lot of edifices built by servicepersons are soaked with greasy sweat of servicemen's wives.
    The high spiritual world and ways of work and life of the officers' wives, who prefer the fatherland to their families and devote their all to the efforts to accomplish the Songun cause, are followed as a model by all the Korean women.
    The feature film "Wives of Officers" and song "I am a wife of officer" laud the wives of officers.