Grand performance given to commemorate March 8 International Women's Day

March 9, 2026

As the whole country is brimming with love and respect for and warm congratulations to the women who are building the bright future, ensuring the continuity of the bloodline of patriotism generation after generation, a performance was given successfully at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on March 8 in commemoration of International Women's Day.

The venue for the performance was full of joy and deep emotion of the women who would commemorate March 8 as the happiest holiday in the presence of the tender-hearted father whom they had longed to see even in their dreams.

When Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, appeared in the auditorium with his wife Ri Sol Ju and beloved daughter, stormy cheers of "Hurrah!" erupted in reflection of the excitement of the participants keenly awaiting the moment of glory.

Among the audience were leading cadres of the Party and the government, officials of the Central Committee of the women's union, exemplary officials, labour innovators, meritorious persons and other female working people of institutions and enterprises in Pyongyang.

Present there at invitation were diplomatic envoys and members of foreign missions in the DPRK.

Kim Jong Un made a speech in congratulation of the women across the country.

He told about his impression of the women's holiday being greeted shortly after the Ninth Congress of the WPK. He expressed his special thanks to all the Korean women for their exceptional and unknown efforts, saying they are a solid buttress of the revolution who have recorded the most beautiful and greatest lives in the annals of the revolution and in the pages of history and who are still bringing affection and delight to the country and adding strength, courage and victory to it.

Saying that when our women continue to carry forward the tradition of patriotism by fulfilling their irreplaceable responsibility and role, our society will get stronger and more prosperous, he warmly wished all the Korean women happiness, good health and eternal beauty for the country, revolution and future.

The audience raised enthusiastic cheers, overwhelmed with deep emotion at the warm blessings by the great fatherly leader who places the women in the front rank of the most precious people in the world, crowning them with the laurels of all the victories achieved by the country and the revolution.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

Amid the playing of the prelude "May Your Future Be Always in Springtime", members of the children's union presented fragrant bouquets to women in reflection of all the people's congratulations and respect.

Put on the stage of the performance were various numbers including the odes to the Workers' Party sung heartily by the women, famous songs on the theme of patriotism and folk songs.

Singing the odes loved by all the people, the performers represented the deepest reverence of all the women of the country for the motherly Party which greatly values the pure conscience and selfless efforts they have dedicated to the prosperity of the country and which accords them the highest honour and respect.

The performance reached its climax with female group singing and chorus "Long Live Our Korea" and mixed group singing and chorus "O, Korea, My Mother" that aroused the strong enthusiasm of women to glorify the appellation of Korean women by making patriotic devotion for the boundlessly benevolent Party and social system and for the victory of the socialist cause.

The performance was loudly applauded by the audience as it represented the firm faith and will of the Korean women to invariably glorify their honourable titles of women revolutionaries and communist mothers on the road of single-mindedly following the respected Marshal Kim Jong Un only for the eternal harmony and prosperity of the large socialist family and the country which will be prosperous forever down through generations. 

KCNA

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