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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Marked
Pyongyang, July 17 (KCNA) -- Papers Sunday dedicate bylined articles to the 20th anniversary of General Secretary Kim Jong Il's work "Theory of Musical Art."

The work gives scientific answers to the principled issues on the essence, mission, contents and style of music based on the immortal Juche idea and fully indicates the ways of building the Juche-based music.

The articles say that the work has served as an encyclopedia of building musical art for popular masses aspiring after independence.

The work is a great immortal program as it comprehensively indicates in depth the principled requirements and ways to be constantly maintained in building and creating the Juche-based musical arts ranging from the essence and mission of the Juche-based music to the issues on composing and playing music and training reserves, Rodong Sinmun notes, and goes on:

Since the publication of the work the Juche-based musical art in the DPRK has covered the shining path of development, making genuine contribution to accomplishing the revolutionary cause of Songun. It thus proved in practice the scientific accuracy and validity of the idea and theory contained in the work.

The idea and theory of the work have been successfully put into practice under the leadership of Kim Jong Il in the new century.

He saw to it that "The Blue Sky over My Country" was re-created as a famous song of the Songun era and a grand art performance was given with this song as a main song.

Masterpieces of the past have been re-created as the famous art pieces of the Songun era under his guidance, proving the validity of the idea and theory of the work in reality.

Thanks to the leadership of Kim Jong Il who has worked heart and soul to make the Korean people enjoy the most excellent and beautiful music, great and wonderful concerts were given on significant national holidays. This helped the musical arts of the DPRK develop in conformity with the feature of a thriving country.

Performing activities have been popularized on a higher level. The activities of art groups of working people including the contests of art groups of military families are accounting for an important proportion of the musical art of the Songun era. This is the valuable result of the vitality of the idea and policy of the work.

Minju Joson says that the work serves as important guidelines to be maintained in creating and building the musical arts in the era of Juche for its scientific profundity, truth, originality and revolutionary character.

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