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Diamond Jubilee of DPRK Celebrated

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

   Pyongyang, September 4 (KCNA) -- A performance was given by art groups of working people in Pyongyang at the People's Palace of Culture on September 3 in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the DPRK.
    Among the audience were Choe Thae Bok, Yang Hyong Sop and others.
    It began with narrations and choruses "Long Live Generalissimo Kim Il Sung", "Glory to General" and "Fly Our Tri-color National Flag of the Republic". The repertoire included poem and story-telling "Three Commanders of Mt. Paektu and Our Republic", female solo "Here Is the Country Where I Live", janggo ensemble "This Is Thanks to the Songun Politics of General" and other colorful numbers.
    The performers sang high praises of the immortal exploits President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il performed by building on this land the country of the people guided by the Juche idea, laying an eternal foundation for the prosperity of the country and the nation and demonstrating the dignity and might of the DPRK to the whole world with the might of Songun.
    Also staged were numbers representing the mental power of the Korean people who have dynamically advanced along the road of socialism, working epoch-making miracles in the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance in the annals of the revolution under the leadership of the Party and the leader.
    In the meantime, a celebration meeting of workers and trade union members was held before the statue of Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill that day on the same occasion.
    Among those present there was Kim Jung Rin.
    The participants laid floral baskets and flowers before the statue of the President and paid tribute to him.
    At the meeting Kim Pyong Phal, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea, made a report which was followed by speeches.
    The reporter and speakers said that the six-decade-long history of the DPRK is recorded with the shining annals in which it achieved the independence of the popular masses by applying the Juche idea and demonstrated before the whole world the validity and invincibility of the socialist cause under the wise guidance of the peerlessly great persons.
    They stressed that the feats the President performed by building a socialist power, independent in politics, self-supporting in economy and self-reliant in national defence, and laying an eternal foundation for the country's prosperity would shine long.