International Women's Day is celebrated in People's Korea .March the 8th is a public holiday in the DPRK (unlike the UK ) . International Women's Day in the DPRK is marked by meetings , concerts and other events . In the DPRK there are buildings that bear the name 'March 8th ' such as the March 8th Hotel in Sariwon.
In People's Korea women had been liberated from the terrible double and triple oppression under feudalism and imperialism . Under both feudalism and the colonial rule of Japan Korean women suffered extreme oppression including the sexual slavery imposed by the Japanese imperialists .
The liberation of Korea from Japanese rule and the building of people's democracy , then socialism gave Korean women a new life as equals. Legalization guaranteeing the rights of women had been enacted in the DPRK starting with the Law on Sexual Equality passed on the 30th of July 1946, Article 77 of the Socialist Constitution of the the DPRK (first enacted in 1972 and amended and supplemented several times since ) and the Law of the DPRK on Protection of Women’s Rights adopted in December 2010.
Women's rights are guaranteed in practice by measures such as free socialised childcare including 24 hour and 7 day nurseries . Also women with 3 children under the age of 13 may work 6 hours but be paid for 8 hours . No one ever asks how much this costs .It is a benefit given by People's Korea to women .
The DPRK does not have the 'sex ' industry ( prostitution was abolished in People's Korea in 1946) or pornography and hyper-sexualisation which are prevalent in Western capitalist countries . In the the capitalist countries women are treated as objects or commodities but in People's Korea women are free from this.
People's Korea is a model of genuine Juche-orientated women's liberation .
Long live Juche-based women's liberation !
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