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Anniversary of Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s Work Marked in DPRK

Culture 2024.2.9.


A meeting took place at the Pyongyang Grand Theatre in the DPRK on Wednesday to mark the 10th anniversary of the publication of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un’s immortal classic work "On Encouraging and Developing Our Nation’s Traditional Music".

Present there were Jo Kyong Jun, vice department director of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, Sung Jong Gyu, minister of Culture, officials concerned and officials, creators and artistes in the field of literature and art and teachers and researchers of educational institutions.

Kim In Bom, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of the Unions of Art and Literature of Korea, made a report.

The reporter said that Kim Jong Un, an outstanding genius of literature and art, published his work, an immortal great programme for the development of national music, on February 8, Juche 103 (2014), adding this is a historic event to be specially recorded in the history of Korean music.

He noted that President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, who paid deep attention to the development of national music, developed it into genuine one firmly consistent with the Juche character and national character.

True to the noble intention of the peerlessly great men, Kim Jong Un newly clarified the idea of attaching importance to national music and made sure that the tradition of national art was preserved and developed to meet the requirements of the times and the people’s thoughts and feelings.

The reporter said that Kim Jong Un set forth important tasks for making a fresh turn and progress in the field of literature and art at the 9th Plenary Meeting of the 8th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

He called upon all officials, creators and artistes to usher in a new heyday of the development of national music, holding fast to the idea and theory of the building of national music clarified by Kim Jong Un as a banner, and thus fulfill their mission and duty as standard-bearers of the Party ideological front.

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