President Kim Il Sung promulgated the "Law on Sex Equality in North Korea" on July 30, Juche 35 (1946), two years before the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The law serves as guidelines for emancipation of women and a code based on respect for women.

From the early period of his revolutionary days, the President had paid close attention to the issue of women and rallied them in organizations.

In "The Ten-point Program of the Association for the Restoration of the Fatherland" released during the anti-Japanese armed struggle, the President indicated a clear-cut way for realizing sex equality. In the period of building of a new society, he took the women's social emancipation as a main task to be fulfilled during the anti-imperialist, anti-feudal democratic revolution.

In November 1945, soon after the country's liberation from the Japanese colonial rule, he organized the Democratic Women's Union of North Korea, a genuine political organization of women.

Now the Korean women are living a worthwhile life and enjoying respect in society under deep care of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

Some of them are heroes, celebrated scientists and famous artistes.