Performance Given to Celebrate 78th Founding Anniversary of DPRK

Pyongyang, September 10 (KCNA) -- All the Korean people's intense love and pride in their country, dignified with independence and strong with self-sustenance and self-reliance century after century, is growing stronger along with glorious September. Against this backdrop, national day celebrations in the DPRK culminated in a grand art performance given before the Pyongyang Assembly Hall on Wednesday evening.

The venue for the performance was filled with excitement and joy of Pyongyang citizens who significantly and splendidly celebrate the 78th founding day, when the great nation-building cause of Juche was accomplished, in the course of carrying out the epoch-making cause of comprehensive development that is of eternal significance in the existence and prosperity of the DPRK.

Members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and other leading cadres of the Party and the government watched the performance together with the labor innovators and meritorious persons invited to the national day celebrations, the participants in the 15th National Conference of Teachers, officials of ministries and national agencies, deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang, the teaching staff and students of the revolutionary schools, and Pyongyang citizens.

The performance began with "Song of the Proclamation of the People's Republic" and "The Glorious Motherland", the monumental odes to the country reminding the participants of the fervent enthusiasm and valiant spirit of new Korea embarking on building a thriving nation. Put on the stage were famous songs on the theme of patriotism which resounded in the course of the founding and development of the Republic.

Enthusiastically singing the paeans of the times, produced by the people's strong aspirations and desire and noble experience, the performers paid high tribute to the 70-odd years of the glorious Republic which included the letters Inmin(people) in its sacred name and has proudly won and defended the honor and prestige of the Juche power by overcoming the difficulties and severe challenges decisive to the destiny of the country through indomitable pioneering and heroic advance.

Listening to the memorable famous songs, which inspired the persevering patriotic will in every period of the revolution, at the crucial moment when they are glorifying with a new great victory their faith and efforts, advancing single-mindedly toward the noblest ideal and purpose, the audience hardened the will to more firmly uphold their socialist country with redoubled courage and self-confidence in their strength and cause so that it is admired by the whole world.

Impressive songs and dances were put on the stage to represent the thought and feelings of all the people seeking to continuously achieve fresh victories so as to preserve the precious honor they have gained generation after generation and add new pages of creative feats and immortal miracles to the history of national prosperity, true to the far-reaching nation-building idea and ambition to outpace the world by dint of the powerful strength based on the truth. The performance reached the climax with "The National Anthem of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea".

Fireworks were successively let off to brighten the nocturnal sky of celebrations.

The performance commemorating the national day sang high praises of the patriotic and revolutionary enthusiasm of the DPRK people to achieve all victories and glory along with their motherland admired by the world as an entity of the eternal dignity and honor, heroic struggle and great creativity of tens of millions of Koreans and as a powerful country advancing toward a rosy future in the course of glorious development. -0-