The venue of the short course overflowed with enthusiasm of the participants in the congress to deeply grasp the main idea and contents of the important letter sent by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and tangibly contribute to implementing the decisions of the congress of the Party and the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee by remarkably enhancing the fighting efficiency of the women's union in the historic advance toward a new victory of our own-style socialism.

Ri Tu Song, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, delivered a lecture at the short course.

The short course dealt with the principled and practical issues arising in turning the women's union into a powerful force and mighty political organization for the development of the state and society by making a fundamental turn in its work, as required by the developing revolution.

The lecturer stressed that the historic letter sent by the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un serves as the undying great programme clarifying the tasks and ways to rally the women's union members closer around the Party and greatly inspire them to the drive for socialist construction at a crucial time when a great turn is witnessed in the Korean revolution.

The short course dealt with the issue of further intensifying the work for thoroughly establishing the respected General Secretary's monolithic leadership system.

Underlining the need to regard it as the core of its work to model the whole union on the revolutionary idea of the General Secretary, the lecturer called for intensively conducting the wide-ranging education in the loyalty toward the leader in various forms and with different methods.

He also stressed the need to put substantial efforts into the work for preserving and glorifying the leadership exploits of the Party with detailed methods, make sure that the organizations at all levels including the lowest-echelon ones map out plans for carrying out the Party policies after being correctly informed of them in time, and strictly review the work for their implementation.

The short course also dealt with the issues of thoroughly implementing the decisions of the 7th congress of the women's union by regarding the struggle tasks set forth at the 8th Party congress as guidelines.

The lecturer stressed that all the participants in the women's union congress should seriously accept the decisions of the congress as organizational intention and supreme task of the entire union and should never forget even a moment the fact that to thoroughly implement the decisions of the congress serves as a fundamental guarantee for defending and glorifying the undying leadership exploits of the respected General Secretary.

The short course also detailed the important issues arising in working out detailed plans for making the organizational and political work for thoroughly implementing the decisions of the congress the course of ideological mobilization, operation and assignment of tasks for awakening the officials and members of the women's union to their revolutionary duty.

The lecturer called on all the participants to live up to the great trust and expectation by the Party Central Committee by devotedly implementing the important tasks set forth in the historic letter of the respected General Secretary, cherishing the absolute loyalty toward the Party and the revolution, pure conscience and sense of obligation.

The short course was held amid high enthusiasm of the participants to dedicate themselves to accelerating the victorious advance of the Korean women's movement and making sure that the women's union most successfully fulfills its role as a transmission belt linking the Party with the masses and its reliable assistant in the efforts for accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Juche.

Before and after the congress the participants toured different places in Pyongyang.

At Mangyongdae, the time-honored birthplace of President Kim Il Sung, they recalled the noble career of the President who was born as the son of the working people at a low-roofed thatched house and dedicated himself to the people throughout his life, believing in them as in Heaven.

At the "Hall of Great Leaders and Their Comrades-in-Arms" in the Korean Revolution Museum, they renewed their resolution to absolutely trust and follow the respected General Secretary only and eternally share their idea, destiny, intention and feelings with the Party, deeply realizing that revolutionary comradeship is the foundation of the single-minded unity and a driving force for the Korean revolution.

They also visited the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Silk Mill, watched a film and conducted other diverse political and cultural activities.