The socialist system of the DPRK is the most superior social system that firmly guarantees women's socio-political right by law and at the same time, puts it into effect thoroughly.
Above all else, the democratic election system was established in the country to thoroughly embody the equality of the sexes so as to provide women with the firm guarantee to exercise their socio-political right practically.
Unless the political system is established to liquidate that of the old society that forces the inequality of the sexes and embody the equality of the sexes, it is impossible to solve a task of emancipating women and to realize the truee political equality of them.
The most important thing is to establish the democratic election system that embodies the equality of the sexes thoroughly.
President
"Women account for half of the population. If half of the people do not take part in electing the organ of power or in its work, such power can hardly be called a genuine people's power."
Election is the way to realize the socio-political right of people.
Democratic election system is the one that elects the organ of state power by secret ballot in accordance with the principles of ordinary, equal and direct elections. The character of election system is usually defined by the character of the social system of the state. The genuine democratic election system can be established only under the social system of socialist state where state power and production means belong to people. It has ordinary, equal and direct elections and secret ballot as the main principles of election and the organization and procedure of election, forms and methods of election are selected to ensure these principles. Its essential character is that every citizen reaching the voting age can take part in the election to express his or her idea without any limit or reserve.
The election system enforced in the DPRK is thoroughly the democratic and popular one. Its regulations define all things such as main principle, organization and procedure, form and method to ensure the democratic election completely. Today in the DPRK, the organ of state power consists of the true representatives of people on the basis of democratic election system.
After the country's liberation, the democratic election system was established to realize the equality of the sexes, so that they provided a firm guarantee to expose and demolish the moves by counterrevolutionary elements who tried to shackle the freedom of women's political activities, even though Law on Sex Equality was actually issued, and to actually realize their socio-political right that remained the legal action only.
In the DPRK, the first democratic election was enforced after national liberation to place the people's government on a stable foundation, through which women exercised their equal rights as men's practically.
The election of members of provincial, city and county people's committees on November 3, 1946 was the first democratic election in the country which made it possible for women to exercise their political right for the first time in history.
That election was the most progressive and democratic one that was enforced by secret ballot in accordance with ordinary, equal and direct principles by election law stipulated for the first time in the country.
It was the first democratic election in Asia as well as the DPRK, thus having a great political effect upon several countries in Asia and serving as an impulse to promote their democratic development.
Korean women came to participate in politics of the country for the first time through that election and the women elected as member of people's committee were 453, 13.1% of entire members.
The country directed primary efforts into the work of awakening and organizing women so as to make the socio-political life itself their own work.
The issue of making women take part in the state and public affairs widely is the one to make women themselves exercise their socio-political right substantially, so only when the level of their political consciousness is enhanced, can it be settled successfully.
Ideological consciousness is the most important of people's consciousness. It is the main standard to judge their ideological and moral qualities and the decisive factor to hasten the formation of their world outlook. Therefore, their role differs according to its standard.
As the level of their political consciousness gets enhanced, the level of their cultural consciousness and technics can be enhanced successfully and as they take part in the political life faithfully, they can participate in the social activities to develop the economy and culture.
The DPRK gave women ideological education steadily to let them have a high consciousness of their being the masters of politics and volunteer to take part in the socio-political life.
They organized the mass political organization for women and united them around a single woman organization.
It is impossible to realize the political right of the equality of the sexes without the woman organization.
For that reason, the DPRK organized the then Democratic Women's Union of Korea to rally broad sections of women behind the organization, which was founded on November 18, 1945 on the initiative and guidance of President
At the Sixth Congress of the Democratic Women's Union of Korea, it was renamed the Socialist Women's Union of Korea.
With its founding, Korean women came to have the legal and unified political organization for the first time in history.
Today, they take part in socio-political activities widely as befitting the masters of the country and play a big role in all fronts of the national economy as the huge force of socialist construction.
