The work, published on July 17, 1991, expounds the essence, mission, role, contents and style of the Juche-based music as well as the issues of rendition and training reserve artistes. It also sets forth the tasks and ways to do so.

Present there were Kim Pyong Hun, chairman of the Central Committee of the General Federation of the Unions of Art and Literature of Korea, officials, creators and artistes in the field of culture and art and teachers and researchers of art education institutions.

Ri Il Nam, chairman of the Central Committee of the Musicians Union of Korea, in a report said that the work serves as important guidelines to be always held fast to in building the Juche-based musical art.

Since the publication of the work the musical art in the DPRK has covered the shining path of development under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il for two decades, the reporter noted, and went on:

Big successes have been made in music of songs, instrumental music, opera art and other fields with the ideology and theory of the work as guidelines. All these achievements are the shining fruition of the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Il for the development of the Juche-based musical art.

The reporter called for thoroughly embodying the immortal idea and theory of Kim Jong Il to usher in a new heyday of musical art.