KIM JONG UN ENJOYS PERFORMANCE GIVEN BY ART SQUADS OF KPA UNITS

Pyongyang, March 11 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Un, first secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and first chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, watched the performance given by the art squads of KPA Units 567, 324 and 233 that proved successful at the 1st contest among art squads of the KPA.

Put on the stage were numbers of diverse genres like chorus "Might of Korea", poem recital "Tell, O Mt. Taedok, famous mountain for Songun", female quartet "Our dear supreme commander", real story-telling "Great comrade-in-arms" and so on.

The performers truthfully represented the invincible might of the powerful revolutionary Paektusan army and the unshakable faith and will of all service personnel to protect Supreme Commander Kim Jong Un at the cost of their lives and unfailingly accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche with arms.

Kim Jong Un highly praised the art performance as a presentation fully representing the party policies and permeated with its idea, the one with perfect ensemble and the dynamic one featured with the characteristics and appearances of the units.

The creators and artistes of the art squads went deep among service personnel as intended by the party and created art pieces reflecting their ardent patriotism and desire to perform feats, he noted, repeatedly appreciating the revolutionary creative spirit of the art squads which create new culture in the era of Songun.

He personally suggested special places for the art squads of KPA units 567, 324 and 233 and extended the particular thanks of the Supreme Commander of the KPA to their creators and players. Then he had a photo taken with them.

Noting that art squad activities are very important for the education of service personnel as they have great influence, strong appeal and mobility, he set forth important tasks which would serve as guidelines for performing activities.

Among the audience were Choe Ryong Hae, Jang Jong Nam, So Hong Chan, Kim Su Gil, Jo Kyong Chol, Hwang Pyong So and service personnel of the KPA.

STABILITY OF KOREAN SOCIETY

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is advancing straight along the road of socialism without experiencing any sort of socio-political instability even in the trying ordeals of history. It is enjoying absolute support of its people and maintaining firm stability of a high degree, quite different from the propaganda of some Western media.

The primary key to it lies in the guiding ideology of the DPRK.

Thanks to its guiding ideology, the Juche idea which is a world outlook that centres on man, people are masters of everything and everything serves them in the DPRK.

Its sovereignty resides in the workers, peasants, intellectuals and all other working people. 10.9 per cent of the deputies elected to the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly (Parliament) of the DPRK are workers, 10.1 per cent peasants, 15.6 per cent women and 90.4 per cent academic degree or title holders, scientists, technicians and specialists. These figures clearly show that it is natural that the state power in the hands of the working people is exercised to realize their demands and interests.

The means of production are also in the hands of the working people. In this country they are owned by the state or social, cooperative organizations, in other words, by its people. All the property of the state serves the people and the whole courses from production to distribution are organized and conducted in accord with the demands and interests of the entire people. Therefore, there never exist the exploitation and oppression of man by man and such a serious social problem as “the rich get ever richer and the poor get ever poorer.”

It is axiomatic that the Korean society guided by the Juche idea, the people-centred one, retains the political stability of the highest degree, enjoying the absolute support of its masses.

The next key should be found in single-minded unity of the Korean society.

In the DPRK the leader and the entire people form an integral whole united by the common destiny.

In the centre of this firm unity is Kim Jong Un, the leader of the DPRK, who is always among his people and dedicating himself to their well-being.

President of a Mongolian pharmaceutical company admired that the DPRK maintained its political stability to the highest level in the world. He continued to say: when peace in Korea and the rest of Asia was exposed to threat, leader Kim Jong Un of the DPRK went to one of the hottest spots on board a small wooden boat. There he took important measures to defend peace, cuddling a child in his arms. On returning, he visited the sites of construction projects designed for his people’s well-being. The invincible unity of the leader, the personification of the love for human, and the people is the most convincing guarantee for the maximum political stability and eternal peace.

In the DPRK where a great harmonious family is formed closely rallied behind the leader a climate of helping and leading each other forward based on the principle of “one for all and all for one,” is prevailing throughout the society, that is, the interests of the collective are always placed above individual ones.

It is certain that thanks to its unique single-minded unity the DPRK guarantees perfect solidity and stability of its social system even in the unprecedented hardships and trials owing to the stifling manoeuvres of the US-led imperialist allied forces.

The third key to secret is the people-oriented policies being enforced in the DPRK.

The people of the DPRK, from the birth, are fully entitled to the stable life provided by the state, and the state is responsible for guaranteeing it. All the members of the Korean society are provided with all rights as social beings, including work and relaxation, free education and free medical care. 

The DPRK abolished its taxation system once and for all 40 years ago.

It is also enforcing a universal 12-year compulsory education, the highest level in the world. The state provides education to everybody free of charge and even grants stipend to students of universities and colleges.

Everybody has no worry about medical care treatment, because they are, irrespective of sex, age, residence, occupation, property and others, entitled to free medical care system in the DPRK. The medical care system in this country is perfect and thoroughgoing in that people receive all kinds of medical service free of charge.

The labour law of the DPRK stipulates that unemployment disappears forever in the country. In fact, not a single unemployed person can be found. All able-bodied citizens may choose occupations in accordance with their wishes and skills, and the state provides them with stable jobs.

The state regards the housing construction as an important undertaking to fully provide the people with cultured and stable living conditions, and thus is paying close attention to it. Dwelling houses are built at state expense and given to the people free of charge—quite beyond belief.

The Korean people love and value their social system so dearly that they are firm in faith and will to lay down their own life unhesitatingly in its defence.

KOREAN WOMEN OF TODAY

Women in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are granted high social status.

Following are typical examples of their social standings.

WOMAN DEPUTY

Kim Hwa Suk, chairwoman of Sadong District Cooperative Farm Management Committee in Pyongyang, started her social life as a farmer of the Rihyon Cooperative Farm, Sadong District in the suburbs of Pyongyang. She is a deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, that is a member of parliament.

One September day in 1977 when she was working as a youth work team leader at the farm President Kim Il Sung visited it. He was satisfied with the young girl’s laudable deed and gave detailed instructions on how to increase the grain output.

As instructed by the President she did a good farming every year to make a rich harvest. Later she was promoted to chairwomanship of the management board of the farm and elected a deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly.

For over 20 years she was reelected the deputy to the Supreme People’s Assembly for five sessions and has been working at the current post since 1993.

She was elected a representative for the Third Conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea in 2010. She participated in the national meetings including the national agricultural congress and took the floor, and also in other international meetings as a women representative.

HERO MANAGERESS

Jang Ok Son is a manageress of the Fruit Processing Factory in Hoechang County, South Phyongan Province. Her factory is an ordinary one in the DPRK.

Originally, her factory was staffed with some 20 employees, and most of them were women. They were producing only a few items with several outdated machines in a small, one-storey building.

Jang Ok Son initiated a project of expanding the capacity of the factory and made positive endeavour for its realization, thus increasing the production capacity six folds in a short period and newly setting up a line of producing children’s foodstuff. Entering the new century, she pushed forward with the projects to further boost the production and put management activities on an informatics and scientific footing. Now a small local factory has been completely face lifted.

Jang Ok Son was awarded high state decorations and citations including the Labour Hero for having long discharged her duty with credit.

PEOPLE’S ATHLETE

Kim Kum Ok was born into an ordinary worker’s family.

Since her childhood, she was very fond of running. The state found out her little talent and brought her up into a marathon runner. Feeling grateful to the country, Kum Ok determined to glorify the motherland by winning gold medals.

She made strenuous efforts with this determination and became winners in the Asian Marathon Championships held in 2006 and 2008 respectively and other international games.

She won another gold medal in the 14^th Asian Marathon Championships. Kim Jong Un, leader of the DPRK, spoke highly of her for becoming Asian marathon champion three times. The state conferred on her the title of People’s Athlete for having won gold medals in several games of marathon that is an iconic sport.

MOTHER HERO

RiPyongHui, who lives in Wonsan, Kangwon Province which is situated on the east coast of the DPRK, is a mother of ten children.

She is a plain-looking but tough-minded woman. Whenever she is asked how she had as many children as ten and if she had planned to do so from the beginning, she answers: to be honest, I had no thought of having ten. But I realized that it is an important matter relating to the future of the country to have and rear children as many as I can. So I made up my mind to perform my duty as a woman by giving birth to many children and bringing them up into able personnel of the country.

Now, three of her children are serving in the Korean People’s Army. She took part as a delegate in the Fourth National Meeting of Mothers held in Pyongyang in November 2012. She said in the meeting that she would do good things more for the motherland that highly appreciates mothers and bestows on them love and trust. She was conferred the title of Labour Hero for having reared many children.