The Sound of a Horse’ Hooves in Mt. Paektu

So what’s Kim Jong Il been up to recently?

Pyongyang, May 7 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, enjoyed an art performance given by the State Symphony Orchestra at the reconstructed Moranbong Theatre. Also among the audience were Kim Kuk Thae and Kim Ki Nam, secretaries of the C.C., WPK, senior officials of the Party and the army and officials in the fields of culture and arts and media.

The performers put on the stage colorful numbers including orchestral music “The Sound of a Horse’ Hooves in Mt. Paektu” and “Rich Harvest Comes to the Chongsan Plain” and world famous music pieces composed by Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich. The performers truthfully represented the unshakable faith and will of the army and people of the DPRK to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche and the cause of building a great prosperous powerful nation under the uplifted banner of great Songun at any cost and fully demonstrated the validity and vitality of the WPK’s literary and art policy of creating, arranging and presenting art works in Korean style from A to Z. He extended thanks to the creators and artistes of the orchestra, expressing great satisfaction over the successful performance given by them with high artistry. He highly appreciated their successes, noting that they have created a lot of masterpieces deeply loved by the Korean people by firmly maintaining the principle of developing symphonies in Korean style to meet their sentiment. He put forward important tasks that would serve as guidelines in further developing the Juche-based symphonies.