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Kim Jong Il Enjoys Art Performance

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

   Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoyed the art performance "The Blue Sky over My Country" (Part Dawn.)
    Among the audience were Choe Thae Bok, Kim Jung Rin and Kim Ki Nam, secretaries of the Central Committee of the WPK, and other senior officials of the WPK Central Committee and Vice Marshal of the KPA Kim Il Chol, member of the DPRK National Defence Commission and minister of the People's Armed Forces, and other KPA commanding officers, servicepersons and officials in the fields of literature and arts and media.
    The above-said art performance, "Kim Il Sung Prize" laureate, made a successful great epic representation of the sky-high spirit of heroic Korea greeting the dawn of a great prosperous powerful nation.
    The performers sang high praises of the brilliant history of the Korean revolution shining with victory and glory and strikingly demonstrated the firm faith and will of the servicepersons and people of the DPRK to build a socialist land of bliss prospering thanks to the spirit of Thaechon, true to the idea and the leadership of Kim Jong Il and thus always keep the sky of the country clean and blue.
    At the end of the performance Kim Jong Il waved back to the enthusiastically cheering performers and audience and congratulated the artistes on their successful presentation.
    He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that the artistes successfully created one more masterpiece in the era of Songun reflecting the spirit and stamina of Korea.
    "The Blue Sky over My Country," which is strictly based on the party spirit, the working class spirit, simplicity and the serve-the-people spirit and which crystallizes the precious cultural treasures made in the past, is genuine popular art that can be created only by our revolutionary artistes led by the WPK, he said, adding that the signal progress made in the Juche-based arts is a clear proof of the validity and great vitality of the WPK's literary and art policy.
    He expressed expectation and belief that they would uphold and preserve the WPK's precious tradition of literature and arts and successfully carry forward and develop it to strikingly demonstrate the might of genuine popular arts before the whole world.