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Unhasu Concert Marks International Women's Day
Pyongyang, March 8 (KCNA) -- The Unhasu Concert for marking the International Women's Day in 2013 was given in Pyongyang Friday.

Watching the concert were Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim and other senior party and state, women anti-Japanese revolutionary fighters and their sons and daughters, woman deputies to the Supreme People's Assembly in Pyongyang, female officials of party and national institutions, exemplary officials of the Democratic Women's Union of Korea and their spouses, heroines, those who had an audience with Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, scientists, teachers and researches and their husbands, women officials of industrial establishments and cooperative farms and labor innovators and their spouses.

Present there on invitation were overseas Koreans, diplomatic envoys and representative of international organizations and military attaches here together with their spouses.

The concert began with the National Anthem. It was given amid boundless reverence for the Generalissimos who hewed out the Korean women's movement and led it.

The repertoires included orchestral music and mixed chorus "Song of Women" and "Women are Flowers", female solo and female pangchang "Love of Great Mother" and a serial song "Song of Friendship".

The performers sang his praises of the undying feats of the great Generalissimos who put forward women as the powerful force of the revolution and construction and as full-fledged master of the country, and worked hard all their lives to materialize the cherished desire of women and usher in the new history of respecting women on this land.

Writer Yun Tu Gun loved by the people for creating a number of famous music and his wife, Tong Thae Gwan, member of the editorial desk of Rodong Sinmun who greatly inspired the army and people with powerful political essays, and his wife separately sang duets. This brilliantly decorated the stage of the concert.

Also put on the stage were "Song of Cheers" and world famous music.

The audience was greatly excited as numbers reflecting the will of the women to take powerful revenge on the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces and achieve the final victory of national reunification were presented.

The concert was acclaimed by the audience.

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