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Kim Jong Il Enjoys Performance Given by State Merited Chorus

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

   Pyongyang, May 1 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il enjoyed a performance given by the State Merited Chorus together with servicepersons of the KPA on the occasion of the May Day.
    Among the audience were Jang Song Thaek and Kim Yang Gon, department directors of the Central Committee of the WPK, and its other senior officials, Generals of the KPA Hyon Chol Hae, Kim Myong Guk and Ri Myong Su and other commanding officers of the army.
    The State Merited Chorus, honored with Kim Il Sung Prize, put on the stage colorful numbers including chorus "Our Comrade Kim Jong Il," male solo and chorus "A Sentry Offers Warm Greetings to Leader," choruses "May, Month of Victory," "The Sound of a Horse's Hooves in Mt. Paektu" and "Way of Victory," male solos and choruses "We Started from Scratch" and "Song of Comradeship," male quartet and chorus "May the Era of the Workers' Party Prosper" and orchestra and chorus "Snow Falls."
    The performers sang high praises of the path shining with victory and glory covered by the Korean revolution and successfully represented the firm faith and will of the KPA and the Korean people to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche, holding aloft the banner of Songun despite any trials and difficulties.
    Kim Jong Il extended high appreciations and thanks to the artistes of the merited chorus for their successful presentation, greatly satisfied with their splendid performance replete with the faith and will of Korea and the revolutionary soldier spirit.
    Noting that orchestra and chorus "Snow Falls" newly created by the artistes of the chorus with wisdom and enthusiasm is a distinguished monumental masterpiece of epochal significance in developing the Juche-based music, he stressed that this shining success is a striking demonstration of the validity and vitality of the WPK's policy on creating Korean-style orchestra, chorus and modality.
    He expressed expectation and belief that all the artistes of the merited chorus would dynamically conduct revolutionary art creative activities to inspire the servicepersons and people to fresh struggles and feats in the future, too.