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Kim Jong Il Sees Performance by Song and Dance Ensemble of KPA AFC

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, enjoyed together with servicepersons a performance given by the Song and Dance Ensemble of the KPA Air Force Command. Also watching it were KPA Vice Marshal Kim Yong Chun, member of the NDC of the DPRK and chief of the KPA General Staff, KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong, Colonel General O Kum Chol, and Ri Yong Chol, member of the Central Military Commission of the WPK and first vice-department director of its Central Committee.
    Its artistes put on the stage colorful numbers of various genres such as chorus "The General Is the Great Defender," male solo "Always Looking Up to the Leader," female duet and Oungum ensemble "Blue Sky over My Country," dialogic poem "Great Loving Care," female solo and male pangchang "Our Squad's Pride in Our Native Land," male chorus "Long Journey for Songun Revolution," narration and chorus "7th Regiment Is in the Van of Us Today, Too," dance "I'll Tell about Soldier's Love," agitation drama "Let's Become Men Strong in Faith" and chorus "The Army of Mt. Paektu Will Answer."
    Through the performance replete with revolutionary enthusiasm and militant spirit, they truthfully depicted the invincible might of the KPA which has been trained as a matchless army under the loving care of Kim Jong Il, a great brilliant commander of Songun, and the unshakable faith and will of the servicepersons to devotedly defend the headquarters of the revolution and accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms without fail.
    Greatly satisfied to see the splendid performance given by the artistes of the ensemble, Kim Jong Il highly praised them for instilling confidence in sure victory, optimism and fighting spirit and courage to annihilate the enemy into the servicepersons through revolutionary and militant art performances.
    He set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines in increasing the role of the ensemble, noting that performing activities are very important as they are greatly instrumental in the ideological education of the servicepersons.