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Kim Jong Il Enjoys Art Performance

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

    Pyongyang, September 20 (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, together with servicepersons of the People's Army, enjoyed an art performance given by art squads of KPA Units 630 and 526. He was accompanied by Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, KPA Vice Marshal Kim Il Chol, member of the NDC of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces, Kim Kuk Thae and Kim Ki Nam, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, Ri Yong Chol and Ri Jae Il, first vice department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK, and KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong.
    The art squads put on the stage colorful numbers of diverse genres including dialogic poem and chorus "The Journey to the Front Associated with Great Devotion ", chorus and story telling "Always according to the Rules", quintet with the accompaniment of instrumental music "We Always Visit First", agitation play "Let's Bring into Full Bloom the Love for Soldiers", female solo and pangchang "Who Did Teach Me It", agitation poem and story telling "The Oath of Successors to the Army" and chorus "We Will Defend the Headquarters of Revolution with Our Lives".
    Kim Jong Il congratulated them on their successful performance. Expressing great satisfaction over the splendid performance given by the members of the art squads as artists of the revolutionary army, he highly appreciated the successes they have achieved by energetically conducting art activities to instill into servicepersons confidence in sure victory and optimism, the spirit and courage to wipe out the enemy.
    He set forth important tasks to be fulfilled to intensify the revolutionary and militant art activities, noting that their activities are very important as they are strongly influential in the ideological education of the servicepersons.