The Eighth Congress of the Socialist Women’s Union of Korea took place in Pyongyang on July 13 and 14.
The congress comprehensively analyzed and reviewed the work done by the women’s union during the period under review and discussed the practical tasks and ways for the women’s union to play more active role as a transmission belt linking the Party with the masses and as a creditable assistant of the Party and fully discharge its mission and role as an ideological education organization in implementing the decisions of the Ninth Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
Present there were the members of the seventh-term SWUK central leadership body and delegates elected by the women’s union organizations at all levels.
Officials of the Party, armed forces organs, ministries and national agencies and those concerned were on hand as observers.
The platform was taken by Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, Jong Kyong Thaek and Ju Chang Il, members of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, executive members of the SWUK Central Committee, chairwomen of the provincial committees of the SWUK, exemplary women’s union officials and members and officials in charge of the women’s union work at the armed forces organs.
When the congress was declared open, the DPRK national anthem was played.
The congress elected the presidium and the secretariat.
The agenda items discussed at the congress are as follows:
1. Review of the Work of the Central Committee of the Socialist Women’s Union of Korea
2. On the Revision of the SWUK Rules
3. Election of the Central Leadership Body of the SWUK
Jo Yong Won read out a congratulatory letter of the WPK Central Committee to the participants in the Eighth Congress of the SWUK and all the women’s union members.
Jon Hyang Sun, chairwoman of the SWUK Central Committee, made a report on the first agenda item.
The reporter reviewed the work of the Seventh-term Central Committee of the SWUK.
She referred to the fact that the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un ushered in a new heyday of the Juche-oriented women’s movement and developed the women’s union into a competent group of patriots promoting the comprehensive development of socialism with his outstanding ideas and deep trust in and affection for it.
She said that more than four hundreds of thousands of women’s union officials and members volunteered to work at the difficult and challenging sites and made positive contributions to the successful implementation of the Five-Year Plan at the major worksites seething with enthusiasm for carrying out the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the WPK through the dynamic socialist patriotic movement, the revolutionary mass movement.
She noted that over 50 women won the Communist Mother Honor Prize for educating and brining up the rising generation to be successors who will take responsibility for the future of the revolution and many women the title of Labor Hero, the highest honor of a DPRK citizen, and other high-class state commendations for giving birth to and rearing well a large number of children.
She stressed that all the successes the SWUK made during the period under review are the shining fruition of the energetic guidance of the WPK, which wisely guided the women’s union to remarkably enhance its fighting efficiency at the crucial period of turn in Korean revolution.
The report analyzed and reviewed a series of deviations, revealed by women’s union organizations at all levels during the period under review, and their causes on the basis of detailed data and referred to the practical ways for putting the SWUK work on the track of new qualitative development.
Concluding her report, she called on Korean women to fully demonstrate their revolutionary spirit and to wage a vigorous struggle for the eternal dignity and glory of the powerful Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and for a brighter future of the beloved generations to come, in line with the blueprint set forth by the Ninth Congress of the WPK.
Speeches were made on the first agenda item.
20 delegates including Han Hye Sun, delegate of the women’s union organization of North Phyongan Province, Jon Song Ok, delegate of the women’s union organization of South Hamgyong Province and Ri Hyang Suk, delegate of the women’s union organization of Pyongyang Municipality, made speeches or presented written speeches.
The congress discussed the revision of the SWUK Rules as its second agenda item.
There was a report on the revision of the women’s union rules.
The reporter submitted the revised rules for deliberation at the congress.
The congress adopted a decision on the revision of the SWUK Rules with unanimous approbation.
The congress discussed the election of the SWUK central leadership body as the third agenda item.
First, the Central Committee of the SWUK was elected.
All the recommended candidates were elected members and alternate members of the SWUK Central Committee with the unanimous approval of the delegates.
The First Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the SWUK was held.
Ju Chang Il, secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, informed the participants of the decision of the plenary meeting.
The Executive Committee of the SWUK Central Committee was elected.
Jon Hyang Sun was elected chairwoman of the SWUK Central Committee and Cha Hyon OK, Ri Hyang Suk, Ri Sun Ok and Ri Hae Im were elected vice-chairwomen.
The Organizing Committee of the SWUK Central Committee was formed.
The chairwoman, vice-chairwomen and members of the Central Inspection Commission of the SWUK were elected.
Department directors of the SWUK Central Committee were appointed.
The congress elected a committee for drafting the decision of the congress with members of the newly elected eighth-term central leadership body of the SWUK, and the committee deliberated the realistic and constructive opinions raised by delegates and supplemented the draft resolution with them.
The decision of the Eighth Congress of the SWUK was adopted with unanimous approval.
Source: KCNA (2026-07-15)