It is March 8 today, the international holiday of women.

The whole country is blessing women who add pleasure to their families and society and support their country with pure love, warm affection and patriotic devotion.

With bundles of fragrant flowers being presented to women and songs of congratulations to women sung across the country, the Korean women are significantly greeting their holiday full of great pride in being masters of the country with equal rights to men.

As the state’s and social benefits to women continue to increase steadily, the Korean women enjoy a worthwhile life and happiness.

On the occasion of the 73rd founding anniversary of the DPRK four years ago, women scientists, educators and artistes and sportswomen were honoured to have an audience with the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un in front of the office building of the headquarters of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea. Among them were Mun Kang Sun, who became a weaver hero in her girlhood, and Ri Myong Sun, a Merited Weaver.

Mun volunteered to work at the then Pyongyang General Textile Mill after graduating from middle school. She wove a large quantity of cloth by taking charge of looms five times more than the fixed number and operating them at full capacity at the factory through a vigorous multi-loom tending movement, to be honoured to have a photo taken with Chairman Kim Jong Il on a visit to the factory in July 2009. In September 2012, she received the blessing of love of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un at the new house on Changjon Street in downtown Pyongyang. She now works as a workshop manager at the factory.

Ri Myong Sun walked 60 kilometres every day along the operation circuit of looms to fulfil her production plan for two years in only seven months in 2009 alone. Chairman Kim Jong Il visited the factory on July 30, the significant anniversary of the promulgation of the Law on Sex Equality, and highly praised her as a labour innovator of the new generation.

"Bearing in mind the honour I had received that day, I only threw myself into the production of fabrics. But the country held me up as a model of the times and Merited Weaver and provided me with a luxurious apartment envied by all in picturesque Kyongru-dong for free. I am determined to repay the benevolence of the country which makes the life of us, women, honourable by doing more work," said Ri Myong Sun.

Many DPRK women lead a worthwhile life for the prosperity of the country, including Kim Myong Wol, senior doctor of the department of ophthalmology at the North Hwanghae Provincial Hospital who has restored the eyesight of thousands of people in the past 30 and more years, Choe Chun Sil, a woman workteam leader in Mundok County who has reaped a rich grain harvest for years, Ri Pyong Hui, a Mother Hero in Wonsan City of Kangwon Province who has given birth to 10 children and brought them up as pillars of the country, and Jong Song Ok, the world marathon queen.

An Irish woman who visited the DPRK several times said that the DPRK, in which a large flower garden of respecting women that cannot be imitated by capitalism has been created, is the one and only heaven and ideal country for women in the world, adding she wanted to be born as a woman of the DPRK if she can be born again in the world.