Politics

The Third People's Art Festival in Celebration of February 16 was held with splendour at theatres and halls across the DPRK on February 14 to mark the 84th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il.

The venues of art performances in the capital city resounded with songs praising and revering the great man to echo endlessly along with the auspicious February holiday.

Art performances were given at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre by art groups of the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Light Industry and the Ministry of Information Industry.

The performers put on the stage narrations and songs "Might of Korea" and "Dear Name", chorus "February Is Spring" and other numbers in praise of the noble revolutionary career of Kim Jong Il.

Art groups of the Ministry of Railways, the Academy of Agricultural Science and the Hungbu Settling Reservoir Management Station under the Pyongyang Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Management Bureau put on the stage numbers of high ideological and artistic value at the Ponghwa Art Theatre to depict Kim Jong Il's history of revolutionary leadership.

Art performances were given by art groups of the the youth league central committee, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection at the Central Youth Hall and by mobile artistic motivation teams of Mangyongdae District and the Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory at the Central Hall of Workers.

All parts of the country were overflowing with yearning and reverence for the peerlessly great men along with the People's Art Festival.

The mobile artistic motivation team members of the Taeyu Copper Mine sang of the joy and excitement of celebrating February 16 as the greatest auspicious holiday in such numbers as chorus "Fortune of Korea".

Mobile artistic motivation team members of Kwail County, the Kwanhae Farm in Unnyul County and Sariwon City and art group members of the Ongjin Mine and the Ryangdam Farm under the South Hwanghae Provincial Rural Economy Committee showed well their happiness of leading a worthwhile life in their native places which are being transformed into places good to work and live in under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea.

Mobile artistic motivation teams of the Joyang Farm under the South Hamgyong Provincial Rural Economy Committee and Kyongwon County and art groups of the Toksong Apple Farm and the township farm in Hwadae County demonstrated their revolutionary zeal to consolidate the foundations for national prosperity on the strength of patriotism.

Mobile artistic motivation team members of Samjiyon City and art group members of the Taehongdan County Potato Processing Factory and the Mojong Vegetable Farm in Hyesan City sang of the devoted service for the people's wellbeing rendered by the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un who is dynamically leading the great historic cause of regional transformation to build on this land a large flower garden embodying the people-first principle.