DPRK urges women to dress for the revolution

[Sky]

North Korea Saturday marked International Women's Day by urging its women to reject Western fashions and to "set good examples" in their clothes and hairstyles.

While the UN has lent its support to a worldwide drive to invest in women and girls to foster gender equality, the reclusive state has issued its own calls to its female population.

"Women must set good examples in all fields of culture and custom, including clothes, hairdos and language," Rodong Sinmun, the official daily of the North's ruling Korean Workers' Party, said in an editorial.

It also urged women to raise their children as trustworthy revolutionaries.

"Thoroughly armed with revolutionary principles and class consciousness, women must not allow reactionary ideas and alien lifestyles being propagated by imperialists to penetrate our society," it added.

The North also urged women to contribute to the defence of the nation.

And it called for women to actively support uniformed servicemen "as if they were their own relatives" and help strengthen solidarity between the people and the army.

Meanwhile, Pyongyang's Chungang TV said North Korea has produced more than 40 female professors and 170 doctorate degree holders over the past 10 years.

It also said a culinary competition was being held in Pyongyang Saturday to celebrate International Women's Day. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jbHm6WfPQhR_sOkVtpx-vVQjjeWw

[Dimentio]

Not to troll or flame this thread, but I do not think that North Korea should try to mock days celebrating liberation, since the people of that nation is in practice property of the state. Was'nt it some years ago that Kim or the party or the army cheered the women on the 8th of march to have lots of babies because the state needed soldiers?

Is abortion allowed in the DPRK?

[Bud Struggle]

North Korea Saturday marked International Women's Day by urging its women to reject Western fashions and to "set good examples" in their clothes and hairstyles.


Sounds like the Pope. :lol:

[More Fire for the People]

DPRK: feudal relations for fifty+ years!

[Dimentio]

DPRK: feudal relations for fifty+ years!

Feudalism is actually quite much more progressive than North Korea, which is a beautiful example of the Asiatic Mode of Production. The Egyptian pharaohs and Babylonian kings provided welfare for all the people, which they owned.

[Zurdito]

It also said a culinary competition was being held in Pyongyang Saturday to celebrate International Women's Day. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jbHm6WfPQhR_sOkVtpx-vVQjjeWw

how progressive.:rolleyes:

[Sky]

DPRK: feudal relations for fifty+ years!

Feudalism in the northern half of Korea dissapeared. A land reform law enacted in 1946 confiscated the holdings of the big landowners and distributed them them to poor farmers and tenants. Under feudalism, the children of the working class cannot advance to become the state officials and intellectuals as has happened in the DPRK.


since the people of that nation is in practice property of the state

There exists in the DPRK a workers' state. The sovereignty resides in the workers, peasants, and working intellectuals. The working people exercise their power through local people's assemblies at all levels. The social system of the DPRK is a people-centered system under which the working people are masters of everything, and everything in society serves the working people.



Is abortion allowed in the DPRK?

Legal with no restrictions.


Was'nt it some years ago that Kim or the party or the army cheered the women on the 8th of march to have lots of babies because the state needed soldiers?
The fertility rate at a rate of 2.5 children per women in 1988 has been quite low.



Sounds like the Pope.

When has the Pope called on people to reject proliferation of imperialist ideas?

The point is that the corporate standards of "beauty" set in the West are instruments of enslavement to a traditional role as a sex object. The idea is to blur the lines between the genders. There are no men and women, but only comrades.

[RHIZOMES]

Communist DPRK in practice seems to resemble a fuedalistic monarchy more and more every day.

[Jazzratt]

It also said a culinary competition was being held in Pyongyang Saturday to celebrate International Women's Day. http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jbHm6WfPQhR_sOkVtpx-vVQjjeWw

Feminism is Imperialism! Get back to the fucking kitchen, *****, and make Kim Jong Il a fucking sandwhich!

[Black Dagger]

Feudalism is actually quite much more progressive than North Korea, which is a beautiful example of the Asiatic Mode of Production.

Lol - it's been a while since i've read Marx, can you explain to mean what this mode of production is and how it's justifiably characterised as 'asian'.

[Wanted Man]

The Egyptian pharaohs and Babylonian kings provided welfare for all the people, which they owned.
Yes, and they also allowed women to go to university, earn doctorates and become professors. :rolleyes:

Anyway, this article seems pretty useless. A government of a faraway country has urged people to do this or that? ZOMG, put it on AFP! Must be a pretty slow news week or something. Do the North Korean media have "silly season", but in early spring instead of parliamentary summer recess?

At any rate, the article still doesn't really tell us anything. What are the women told not to wear, and what hairstyle should they not have? What are they told to wear instead? What practical consequences will this have? How will we know from a press agency sitting in Seoul?

Typical example of lazy journalism in practice.