Art exhibition opens in celebration of anniversary of Korea's liberation

August 15, 2025

An art exhibition opened with due ceremony at the Korean National Art Museum on August 13 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Korea's liberation.

On display at the venue of the exhibition are art pieces depicting the immortal patriotic exploits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il and the noble personality of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un as a great man who is successfully opening up a new era of the overall development of socialism.

Korean painting "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung forming the Korean Revolutionary Army", oil painting "The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung declaring the founding of the Korean People's Revolutionary Army" and other works tell about the immortal feats of Kim Il Sung who advanced the transparent idea of independence and line of armed struggle and pioneered the heroic history of resistance by founding the revolutionary armed forces of Juche type.

Korean painting "Being together on the road for the well-being of the people" shows the untiring efforts of the President and the Chairman who had continued their long journey of devotion for the people and posterity.

Oil paintings "Climbing Mt Paektu, the sacred mountain of revolution" and "Comrade Kim Jong Un, the illustrious commander of Mt Paektu" show the personality of Kim Jong Un as a great man who is carrying forward the ever-victorious history and traditions of an independent power.

Also on show there are art pieces dealing with the noble moral world of the anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters, the history of the heroic struggle of the Korean people who have glorified the annals of the revolution with proud victory and the proud reality of the country changing day by day along with the new era of comprehensive rejuvenation.

Present at the opening ceremony were Ju Chang Il, department director of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Ri Myong Chol, secretary of the Pyongyang Municipal Committee of the WPK, officials and creators in the field of fine arts and working people in Pyongyang.

Minister of Culture Sung Jong Gyu made an opening address.

At the end of the ceremony the participants looked round the venue of the exhibition.

KCNA

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