The Anti-Japanese Women's Association was formed in the 1920s under the leadership of Kim Il Sung as the first revolutionary organization of the Korean women. Since then, the Korean women's movement has developed in a new way.

The undying feats Kim Jong Suk performed in defending Kim Il Sung politically, ideologically and at the risk of her life and arousing women to the anti-Japanese war are conspicuous in the history of the movement for the Korean women's emancipation.

The country's liberation from the Japanese colonial rule and the promulgation of the Law on Sex Equality were great events that freed the women from centuries-old deprivation of rights and inequality.

During the periods of building a new country, the Fatherland Liberation War, post-war rehabilitation and construction and socialist construction, the women rolled one of the two wheels of the revolution, with equal rights with the men.

On March 8, Juche 84 (1995), leader Kim Jong Il published a historic talk "Women Are a Dynamic Force Pushing Ahead with the Revolution and Construction".

In the talk he called for establishing public traits of respecting women throughout the country.

Some women are active as government officials and many have become winners of the title of hero in the country.