People-Oriented Constitution

The DPRK adopted the Socialist Constitution on December 27 Juche 61 (1972).

The Socialist Constitution has since then been amended and supplemented on several occasions. It embodies in an all-round way the fundamental principles and demands of the Juche idea on making everything in society geared to serving the people and solving all problems that arise in the revolution and construction in reliance on their strength. As it is fundamentally based on the principle of attaching importance to and showing love for the people, it substantially ensures the Korean people an independent and creative life.

All citizens in the country are given the equal right to elect and to be elected, and take a free part in the election. Anyone who performs his or her duty on the road for national prosperity and public welfare can be elected a deputy to the people’s assemblies.

The Korean women participate in social life and make active contributions to accomplishing the cause of building a thriving socialist country while enjoying the same rights as men. The maternity leave, short working hours for mothers who rear several children, and increase in the number of maternity hospitals, crèches and kindergartens serve as mere examples which show the true image of the socialist system of the DPRK where women’s rights are respected.

The Korean people enjoy the state benefits such as social insurance and security systems and paid leave and recuperation and relaxation systems. They are given stable jobs by the state according to their ability and aptitude. That’s why they do not know the meaning of the word “unemployment.”

In the DPRK taxation was completely abolished in Juche 63 (1974). Thus, the Korean people live without hearing the word “tax.”

The socialist labour law, public health law, law on the nursing and upbringing of children, land law and other laws and regulations were adopted on the basis of the Socialist Constitution. Under these laws the Korean people are provided with all living conditions such as food, clothing and housing and receive education and medical service at state expense. Scholarships are available for college and university students. Preschool children are looked after at crèches and kindergartens at the expense of the state and society. In addition, the DPRK makes great efforts to consolidate and develop the universal free medical care system including the section doctor and prophylactic systems so as to protect the people’s life and promote their health.

In the DPRK dwelling houses are built at state expense and distributed gratis to the people. Workers, intellectuals and other ordinary people live in Changjon Street, Unha Scientists Street, Wisong Scientists Residential District and Mirae Scientists Street which have recently been built with stylish fashions. The ordinary people live in the rural village at the facelifted Jangchon Vegetable Cooperative Farm and the modern houses in the northern part of North Hamgyong Province including the Sonbong area of Rason City and Musan and Yonsa counties, all of which have been built amidst nationwide concern and support.

The Korean people also relax at the Masikryong Ski Resort, Munsu Water Park, Mirim Riding Club, Rungna People’s Pleasure Ground, Rungna Dolphinarium and other bases for cultural and leisure activities.

The DPRK attaches importance to the development of the sectors that are directly related to the people’s livelihood, provides the working people with excellent conditions for their working and material life, and expands the scope of the people-oriented policies, thus steadily improving the people’s standard of living. It invariably pursues people-oriented policies of subordinating everything to providing the people with an affluent and civilized life, regarding their livelihood as the most important of state affairs. It steadfastly enforced such policies in the trying years when the country was undergoing difficulties in the 1990s. The people-oriented policies are on the increase.

The Korean people hold dearer their socialist system than their lives and strive to add brilliance to it.

As it has the most people-oriented socialist constitution the DPRK will, in the future, too, develop further as a truly people’s country where the genuine life of people blossoms.