Pyongyang, March 25 (KCNA) -- The 9th April Spring People's Art Festival will be held in Pyongyang on the occasion of the 113th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

The festival is a grand political and art festival for praising the great man as it shows the Korean people's world of noble loyalty and moral obligation as well as their unshakable will to glorify the precious revolutionary career and exploits of President Kim Il Sung for all ages and certainly bring about the bright future of a prosperous and powerful country under the leadership of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.

The festival, to be attended by members of art groups from institutions, industrial establishments, farms and other units across the country, will be divided into sections of city and county (complex) art groups, institutional art groups, industrial establishment art groups and farm art groups.

It will be held at the People's Palace of Culture, the Pyongyang Grand Theatre, the Central Youth Hall and other theatres and halls in the capital city of Pyongyang from April 10 to 17. -0-