Flowers of the Country

In the DPRK women are called flowers of the country.

Korean women in the past were subjected to all sorts of contempt and humiliation under the shackle of feudal society.

They were disallowed to go out of the house freely.

The origin of jumping seesaw, a Korean folk game tells of the miserable status of Korean women of the past.

Legend has it that the women who were prevented from going out played at seesaw made of a board to look over a fence.

In modern times they, deprived of their country by the Japanese aggressors had to suffer more bitter disgrace and insult as sexual slaves for the aggressor army.1

President Kim Il Sung, legendary hero of the anti-Japanese war liberated the country and promulgated the Law on Equality of the Sexes on July 30, Juche 35(1946).

The Korean women became the masters of a new Korea with the equal rights with men.

The women, accounting for half of the population are actively participating in the political, economic and cultural life of the country along with men.

Ordinary women are developing their hopes and talents as deputies of the Supreme People’s Assembly, heroes of the Republic, scientists, artists and athletes.

Their efforts are associated with newly built structures, miraculous scientific and technical successes and the hot wind of sports sweeping the whole country.

Last year many Korean women athletes let flags of the Republic fly high in the skies above of foreign countries.

From olden times it has been a duty of a woman to give birth to a child and bring it up.

But today the DPRK confers the title of mother-hero on the women who gave birth to many children and bestows all kinds of benefits to women in all social life.

A glimpse of it is the Breast Tumour Institute at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital, a world-level breast cancer research and treatment base.

Today the Korean women are devoting all their energies to building a thriving state as flowers of life, flowers of happiness and flowers of the country.