Pyongyang, November 15 (KCNA) -- November 16 is Mother's Day in the DPRK.

On this occasion, tens of millions of children of the DPRK are extending warm congratulations and thanks to their mothers who have devoted their warm love and affection to their families and society.

Mothers have led a worthwhile life as heroines of the country and meritorious persons of socialist patriotism decade after decade under the care of the peerlessly great men.

President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il opened up a noble world of prioritizing and respecting women and led them to fulfill their responsibility and duty in the education of their children and socialist construction all their lives.

Now, mothers are leading a more brilliant life, blessed by the times, under the loving care of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un.

The respected General Secretary saw to it that November 16 was instituted as Mother's Day and the Fourth National Conference of Mothers was held on the occasion of the first Mother's Day. It is the day when the President made a speech "The Duty of Mothers in the Education of Children" at the First National Conference of Mothers.

Attaching great significance to the position and duty of mothers in the struggle for the advance of the revolution and the prosperity of the country, he provided invaluable guidelines at the Sixth Congress of the Democratic Women's Union of Korea and other major meetings to enable the mothers to fulfil their responsibility and role as a powerful force in the development of the state and society.

At the Fifth National Conference of Mothers, he glorified the ordinary lives of mothers with the title of communist mother and praised them as architects of the era of a dignified powerful nation.

The healthcare facilities built at the best level for mothers and children and the ever-deepening state care of the heroines who raise many children are all associated with the loving care of the respected General Secretary.

Mothers are saying aloud that their dignity, happiness and future are guaranteed under the benevolent care of the respected General Secretary. -0-