Human rights are independent rights of a social man, and a society that ensures the true independent rights of man are the developed ones.
Socialism in the DPRK is people-centred socialism, the Juche-oriented socialism that regards the popular masses as the most precious beings and makes everything serve them.
This is clearly expressed in the fact that the DPRK’s socialism provides the people with true human rights, independent rights to be exercised in all fields of social life including politics, economy and culture on the basis of the Juche idea, the true idea of defending human rights.
The DPRK fully provides the people with the true political right befitting the masters of state and society.
Political right is a main right that is the basis of all rights of man and the most important right that enables the people to occupy the position as the masters of state and society and fulfill the role as such.
In the DPRK all citizens exercise the rights to elect and to be elected without any restrictions. The DPRK provides all the people wit
Exercising such rights is guaranteed by Article 66 of the Socialist Constitution, Election Law of Deputies to People’s Assembly of All Levels and some other laws and regulations.
Social man demands freedom of idea and religion. Only with the freedom of idea and religion, is it possible to truly attend the political life, defend the dignity of being an independent being and glorify the value.
The DPRK provides everyone with the rights to freely choose and believe idea and religion according to his will.
All citizens in the DPRK choose and trust the Juche idea, the man-centred world outlook and the idea for realizing independence of the popular masses, and think and act as required by the Juche idea. According to the Socialist Constitution, the people freely choose any religion and belief according to their faith, and hold public or private services, ceremonies and events independently or jointly with others. It is also free to erect a building for religion and make a religious education.
Freedom of speech and press is an indispensable element of democracy and one of the important political rights.
All the citizens in the DPRK fully exercise the rights to freely express their views and opinions anywhere through various kinds of papers, magazines, books and other publications and through TV, radio, etc.
It is a legitimate right of the master of state for a citizen to submit a complaint and petition for his will and desire to the government. In the DPRK complaint and petition is the voice of the people and the reflection of their favour and thus studying and solving it is an important work to defend the desire and interests of the people, the masters of the socialist society.
The DPRK provides the people with freedom of assembly, demonstration and association. She provides the citizens with all conditions under which they can freely form democratic political parties and public organizations and conduct free activities according to the Socialist Constitution and the laws and regulations.
The DPRK also provides the people with the rights of economic activities and life, so that they can enjoy a true material and economic life.
Socialist material and economic life should be the sound one that contributes to realizing the people’s desire for independence and ensuring their creative activities and the equal one that all the people are well-off without differences between the rich and the poor.
The DPRK substantially provides the people with the rights to food, clothing and housing and the conditions necessary for them.
Every citizen, who is at working age, chooses a job according to his or her hope and talent, regardless of sex, nationality and social affiliation and takes an active part in the creative labor for prosperity of the country, welfare of the people and his or her happiness in stable job. In the DPRK the right to labor is exercised under the safe and hygienic working condition according to the principle of giving priority to labor protection in advance of production and the principle of improving the labour protection arrangements.
The working people receive the same remuneration for the same work done according to its quantity and quality and fully exercise the rights to rest including a day’s rest by an 8-hour working system by the principle of the socialist distribution.
A new type of “remuneration” calling additional benefits of the state and society is supplemented along with the remuneration for their work done. As a result, the people are fully provided with the right to satisfactory standards of living.
In the DPRK everyone is supplied with provisions at cheap price that is almost free when he is born, and he lives in the house built by the state investment, paying a cheap price which is almost free.
Many people in the capitalist countries suffer from enormous costs of living, but the Korean people live without worrying about the price of rice and houses thanks to the people-oriented policy of the state. It shows that the DPRK’s socialist system is, indeed, a people’s paradise good to live in.
We can’t say the Korean people live an affluent life, but all of them—workers, farmers, officials, people who live in urban and rural areas—enjoy an equal and happy life without any worry about life.
The material wealth created by the Korean people is totally directed to the improvement of their welfare, and their material and economic life is steadily improved with the progress of the building of a thriving socialist country.
The DPRK also provides the people with the social and cultural rights, the rights to cultivate their creative ability and meet their cultural and sentimental needs.
The essential characteristic of the socialist cultural life distinctive from the capitalist one that debases and corrupts the people is to realize intrinsic needs of man who is desirous of ever-developing mentally and physically and make all the people creators and enjoyers of culture.
In the DPRK all the people grow up to be comprehensively-developed men of new type, studying a whole life with the right and freedom to learn. The DPRK’s educational system consists of the universal and complete free education system, the regular education system that everyone can receive hig
In recent years the DPRK promulgated the law on enforcing the universal 12-year compulsory education and pushes ahead with the work to normalize the education across the country.
The DPRK provides the citizens with the right to health according to the perfect and comprehensive free medical care and the preventive treatment.
The Korean people receive all the services for patient treatment, medical care for the working people, assistance at childbirth, health checkup, health consultation, vaccination and other preventive medical services free of charge. The state strengthens the publication of information and education about cleanliness and hygiene, so that the people themselves can take a voluntary part in the work of maintaining a sanitary environment, take scientific care of health and prevent disease.
The DPRK’s district medical care system is the advanced medical service in which a doctor is in charge of residents in a certain area and always goes among them to care for their health and give them preventive treatment. It is the popular system that can be enforced only in the DPRK where the state takes responsible care of the people’s life and health.
The DPRK encourages all the working people to learn science and technology and develop them, provides them wit
Everyone can freely conduct writing and creative activities. Copyright, patent right, industrial design right, trademark right and other intellectual property rights of the people are provided by law. For the recent years modern cultural service bases of the world level have been wonderfully built and sports is made mass-based and a part of daily life and thus the people’s right to cultural and sentimental life is ensured on a higher level.
The DPRK also provides the right to life, right not to be tortured, right to freedom and security of body, right to receive fair judgment, right to receive social security services, rights of women, children and other special collectives, etc.
The Korean people, who confirmed through their experiences that people-centred socialism embodying the Juche idea, the Juche-oriented socialism is the most advantageous and popular society which provides them with the true human rights, absolutely support it and make devoted efforts to consolidate and develop it under the wise leadership of respected Marshal Kim Jong Un.
