Ms. Hong Ji Sun (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) said that the inferiority of women was a concept deeply rooted in the culture of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, which had been a feudalist society for 2,000 years and had been subjected to Japanese colonial rule.

Although, strictly speaking, he did not establish slavery, he imposed a semi feudal system, fumage, in which every able man was required to work in plantations (similar to Latifundios) to produce goods for the fledging country.