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Kim Jong Il Enjoys Joint Performance Given by Russian Art Troupes

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, Saturday appreciated a joint performance given by a music troupe of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, the Russian Sveshnikov State Academic Chorus, the Russian Kazakh Dance Company and the Russian tap dance group participating in the 23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival. He was received at the theatre by Stanislav Kalinin, head of the a music troupe of the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, Igor Ivanovich Rayevsky, head of the Russian Sveshnikov State Academic Chorus, Leonid Petrovich Milivanov, head of the Russian Kazakh Dance Company, Vladimir Kirsanov, head of the Russian tap dance group, and Andrei Gennadiyevich Karlov, Russian ambassador to the DPRK.
    Kim Jong Il expressed his thanks to various famous art troupes of Russia for participating in the festival and splendidly decorating its stage with their successful performances. Then he had a warm conversation with them.
    When he appeared in the auditorium, Russian artistes presented a bunch of fragrant flowers to him in unbounded reverence and offered him their thanks.
    Watching the performance together with him were Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, Choe Thae Bok and Kim Ki Nam, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, senior officials of the Party and the army, leading officials of media organizations and KPA servicepersons.
    Among the audience were heads of the above-said Russian art troupes and the Russian ambassador and staff members of his embassy.
    The performance began with the chorus "Song of General Kim Jong Il." Their repertoire included colorful numbers such as chorus "The Just War", "Song of Ships on the River Volga", male solo of romance by Tchaikovsky "Forest, I Praise Thee," female solo "On Highway", song and dance "Matanya" and "Kazakh Dance", dance "Kalinka", tap dance "We Walk along Moscow", chorus "My Motherland" and Korean songs such as Piano solo "Dear General, Where Are You", chorus "My Native Land."
    In the performance the Russian artistes represented the Russian people's love for their motherland and their optimistic life with high artistry.
    The performance was acclaimed by the audience as it was pervaded with the warm feelings of the DPRK-Russian friendship.
    Kim Jong Il sent a floral basket to the artistes, congratulating them on their successful performance. He had a photograph taken with them.