C.C., WPK Sends Congratulatory Letter to Participants in Eighth Congress of SWUK and All Other Women's Union Members

Pyongyang, July 15 (KCNA) -- The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea sent a congratulatory letter to the participants in the Eighth Congress of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea and all other women's union members on July 13.

The C.C., WPK in the congratulatory letter said that the period of five years from the day when the Seventh Congress of the SWUK was held, to the present is the one when the era witnessed the activities of the women's union which wrote new pages in the history of the Korean women's movement under the leadership of the WPK and the noble traits of the Korean women.

Recorded in the history of the women's union, which has advanced with the guidance of the Party and the leader as its lifeline and lifeblood, are its seven congresses shining as the fruits of loyalty and patriotism, but there was no such congress as the current one which proudly reviews the days full of honor and pride of our women's genuine life and their valuable contributions to the Party and the country, the congratulatory letter said, and went on:

The beautiful imprints and indelible traces of conscience our women left in the successes reviewed by the Party Congress and the monumental edifices representing the dignity and advance of the DPRK serve as the most correct and valuable proof of the women's union work.

In the days when the country dynamically advanced with the firm ideal despite manifold difficulties brought by unexpected crises and acute situation, the women served as a cornerstone to help their husbands and children stay undisturbed at their worksites and posts and make numerous records and feats admired by the world. For these efforts and exploits alone, our women should be deeply respected.

Furthermore, coal mines, power stations and other major worksites for economic construction and the construction sites for regional development across the country witness the devoted efforts of our women. They also dedicate themselves to sprucing up streets and villages and aiding the army.

Our women, who are ready to go all out for resolving all the problems the Party is worried about and prioritizes, have cultivated farmland with sincere efforts and secured "Nyomaeng" farm machines and military equipment with their sincerity. And they did various good deeds for the country, created many forests, spruced up their living environments and helped orphans and old persons without any caregivers and families with difficulties, regarding all of them as their duties.

Our women, mothers in our country, are pure-minded conscientious human beings as they know how every policy for them is adopted at a time when the country has so much work to do and has to economize in the use of money and how much the country considers to do so, and they placed the duty of repayment above the right to enjoying and voluntarily did what they have to do.

As our women are well aware that they should entrust their most precious families and beloved children to the grateful embrace and defend it, all of them have the excellent spirit of remaining true to the Party, loving and defending their social system, and dedicating themselves to national affairs rather than their family affairs.

The congratulatory letter stressed that the vigorous transformation struggle in the new era for national prosperity calls for further enhancing the functions and roles of the working people's organizations, as transmission belt of the Party, which take their deep roots among the masses and encourage them to the implementation of the Party policies.

The letter continued:

The Socialist Women's Union of Korea should fulfill their honorable duty before the Party and the revolution and the times and the country by remaining faithful to the important mission of training millions of women into the social human beings sharing the ideology, intention, breath and pace with our Party only.

The women's union should concentrate its efforts on the ideological education before anything else and continue to maintain the character and nature of the Korean women advancing along only the road indicated by the Party with firm belief in its lines and policies, the invariable purity and traits peculiar to them.

At present, the education in patriotism and the class and moral education are an important task the women's union should direct special effort to.

The women's union organizations at all levels should vigorously organize and launch various mass movements and socialist emulations and review and appreciate them properly so as to glorify the women's devoted efforts in every part of the country as precious patriotic feats.

It is important to make all the women the communist mothers, who think and act as required by the changed environment and developing era, and the excellent communist educators for their children.

The women's union, an organization of mothers going towards communism, should direct great efforts to educating the children, pay deep attention to the families with many children and methodologically conduct the work for learning from the mother heroes and other fine mothers. So, it has to make sure that many reliable pillars are prepared to take responsibility for the future of the country and the revolution.

Our Party will as ever creditably defend the life and homes of the women and our rising generation and continue striving to realize as early as possible the desire of mothers for their children's better life.

The C.C., WPK in the congratulatory letter expressed the belief that the women's union organizations at all levels and the women's union officials and members would fully display the upright and noble traits of Korean women in the sacred and worthwhile struggle for national prosperity, always united as one in mind. -0-