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Performances Given by Art Groups of Families of KPA Servicemen Prove Successful

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

   Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- The era of Songun witnessed the emergence of the performing art of families of servicemen of the Korean People's Army.
    The participants in the ten contests among the art groups of families of servicemen of the KPA gave more than 560 performances, drawing audiences of over million servicepersons and civilians.
    Supreme Commander of the KPA Kim Jong Il, while giving field guidance to a unit of the KPA in the western sector of the front in January, Juche 87 (1998), told commanding officers that it was necessary for the KPA to organize a contest among art groups of families of its servicemen from that time on and gave meaningful instructions on its purpose and significance.
    In the subsequent period, too, he underscored several times the need to make it a tradition to organize the above-said contest on the occasion of the Day of the Sun every year and indicated the orientation and ways of solving all the issues arising in doing so ranging from the issue of giving fresh content and style to the contest, its organization and scale, the standard for the jury to costumes of the performers.
    He spared time to appreciate and guide at least 420 art pieces included in the repertoires of more than 30 performances from the presentation made by those participants in the first contest held in April, Juche 87 (1998) to the performance given by the participants in the tenth contest, placing their performing art on a new phase.
    The performing art of servicemen's families, an example of popular culture and art, is perfect in its ideological value and artistry and militant in its presentation.
    The performances given by the art groups of servicemen's families powerfully encouraged all the servicepersons and people to perform shining feats in defending the country and building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, cherishing the Songun revolutionary idea and the revolutionary soldier spirit deep in their minds.