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Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's Work Observed
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Rodong Sinmun on Thursday dedicates a bylined article to the 40th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's work "Theory of Cinematic Art".

The work, published on April 11, Juche 62 (1973), deals with the basic issues arising in creating films and literary and art works and the issues in creating Korean-style arts and providing guidance to them.

The article says:

The issues and ways for the creation of arts and guidance over them clarified in the work mean Kim Jong Il's viewpoint on the revolution and construction and his mode of revolutionary activities as well.

It is his world of great creation to steadily create new things through the revolutionary practical activities, and show the validity and vitality of the original idea and theory in the great reality before studying and developing any theory.

He brought about a drastic turn in the literature and the arts first by putting to forms of literature and the arts the great masterpieces created by President Kim Il Sung.

In the days when creators and artistes were fulfilling their honorable and worthwhile duties of putting the President's works on screen and to plays and novels, they nurtured the absolute trust in the President which will remain unchanged even in any adversity.

In this period the work style of speed campaign was also created, and the practices of socialist construction peculiar to the DPRK provided.

Under the energetic leadership of Kim Jong Il, supreme incarnation of infinite loyalty to Kim Il Sung, films, novels, dramas and fine art pieces as well as songs praising the leader were created. This made it possible for the Juche literature and arts to defend and glorify century after century their revolutionary character based on the revolutionary outlook on the leader.

Kim Jong Il created an excellent example in embodying the theory of seed not only in creating literary and art works but in building a thriving nation.

His dedicated services and devotion by which he found and nurtured the seeds for propelling the building of a thriving nation and guaranteeing its victory have brought about great changes on this land under socialism.

The spirit of speed campaign that was born during the days when he brought a drastic turn in creating literary and art works is being followed up with the offensive spirit of at a go in all the sites of building a thriving nation.

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