Eighth Congress of Socialist Women's Union of Korea held
July 16, 2026The Eighth Congress of the Socialist Women's Union of Korea took place in Pyongyang on July 13 and 14.
The congress comprehensively analysed 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 a 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 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 affair at the armed forces organs.
When the congress was declared open, the national anthem of the DPRK 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 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 other women's union members.
Stating that the beautiful imprints and indelible traces of conscience our women left in all the successes reviewed by the Party Congress and the monumental edifices representing the dignity and advance of the DPRK serve as the most correct and valuable proof of the women's union work, the letter highly praised the SWUK for performing the feat of making the image of all the great Korean people as well as the tough-minded and beautiful looks of the Korean women stand out in the era. And it extended warm congratulations and encouraging greetings to all the women's union officials and members across the country including the participants.
It indicated the main task facing the women's union in the resolute struggle for transformation in the new era for the prosperity of the state and the practical ways for further enhancing the functions and role of the women's union organizations.
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 Central Committee of the SWUK.
She referred to the fact that the respected
She said that more than four hundred thousand women's union officials and members volunteered to work at the difficult and challenging worksites and made positive contributions to the successful implementation of the five-year plan at every major worksite seething with enthusiasm for carrying out the decisions of the Eighth Congress of the WPK through the dynamic socialist patriotic movement, revolutionary mass movements.
She noted that over 50 women won the Communist Mother Honour Prize for educating and bringing up children to be successors who would take responsibility for the future of the revolution and many women the title of Labour Hero, the highest honour of DPRK citizens, and other high-class state commendations for giving birth to and rearing well many children.
She stressed that all the successes the SWUK made during the period under review are the brilliant fruition of the energetic guidance of the WPK, which wisely guided the women's union to remarkably enhance its fighting efficiency at the crucial turning point for the Korean revolution.
The report analysed 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.
The reporter stressed that our state, the greatest in the world, would grow stronger and further prosper when all the women's union officials and members fulfil the responsibility and duty they assumed for the times, history and country and steadily carry on the tradition of loyalty and patriotism.
Speeches were made on the first agenda item.
Twenty 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.
It discussed the election of the SWUK central leadership 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 of the SWUK, and the committee deliberated on 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.
KCNA