74 years ago today People’s Korea took a revolutionary and radical measure that struck hard at centuries old feudal oppression of women . The law made women legally equally with men in all fields of society . Under feudalism in Korea women had been severely oppressed , they were not allowed out of the home […]
From Voice of Korea http://vok.rep.kp/ The Law on Sex Equality was promulgated in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on July 30, Juche 35(1946). The promulgation of the law brought about a change in the status and role of the Korean women. The Korean women, who had long been subjected to all kinds of social […]
Seeing the recent celebration in Pyongyang of the 67th anniversary of the great Fatherland Liberation War in the DPRK and talking to an old friend made me recollect my trip to People’s Korea in July 2013 for the magnificent celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Fatherland Liberation War . I traveled […]
ARTICLE 1: Women have equal rights to men economically, culturally, socially, and politically in all areas of life of the nation. ARTICLE 2: Women have the same rights as men to vote and be elected in the regional as well as the highest national organs. ARTICLE 3: Women have the same rights as men to […]
Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) — The following is the full text of the speech “The Feats Performed by the Great Victors Will Remain for Ever” made by Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un at the Sixth National Conference of War Veterans on July 27, Juche 109 (2020): Esteemed comrades war veterans, This is July 27. […]
Pyongyang, July 28 (KCNA) — The 6th National Conference of War Veterans was held splendidly in Pyongyang at the April 25 House of Culture on Monday. Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed […]
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, visited the Fatherland Liberation War Martyrs Cemetery to pay noble tributes to the fallen fighters of the […]
Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers’ Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and supreme commander of the armed forces of the DPRK, conferred “Paektusan” commemorative pistols on leading commanding officers of the armed forces of the DPRK on the […]
Pyongyang, July 26 (KCNA) — Amid the intensified anti-epidemic campaign for thoroughly checking the inroads of the world’s threatening pandemic, an emergency event happened in Kaesong City where a runaway who went to the south three years ago, a person who is suspected to have been infected with the vicious virus returned on July 19 […]
There are women among the Heroes of the DPRK who performed brilliant feats in defeating the allied imperialist forces during the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War (June 1950-July 1953). First Pilot Heroine Thae Son Hui served as a female pilot during the Korean war, in defiance of some narrow-minded persons’ assertion that the Korean women were […]