Pyongyang,
January 1 (KCNA) -- The hope-filled new year, Juche 113 (2024), has come to the
socialist homeland continuously adding new epic stories to its history as a
great powerful country, while advancing toward the successful implementation of
the fighting programme set forth by the 8th Congress of the Workers' Party of
Korea and the fulfillment of the great far- reaching target for the prosperity
and development of the DPRK and the wellbeing of its people.
Seeing
the year 2023 out, all the people review the proud year that witnessed great
changes specially recorded in the history of the country, convinced that the
future will be rosier with greater miracles and changes. And they express their
firm reverence for and trust in our great Party, the banner, organizer and
guide of all victories and glory.
A
grand art performance for celebrating the New Year 2024 was given with splendor
at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang, the capital city of the DPRK, amid great
excitement of all the people seeing in the New Year with the spirit of working
hard to hasten a new victory full of great confidence.
The
venue for the performance was filled with the pride and joy of the audience as
they recollected with deep emotion the proud advance of the year in which they
brought about eye-opening events by overcoming all difficulties,
single-mindedly united behind the Workers' Party of Korea.
To
highlight the colorful prelude of the New Year celebration, figure skaters and
acrobats demonstrated their wonderful skills on the ice-rink.
A
group of well-known drummers revved up the festive atmosphere through their
cheerful tune.
A
ceremony of hoisting the national flag of the great DPRK, was held. All the
audience paid high tribute to the sacred national flag.
Kim
Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the
State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, enjoyed the
performance together with senior officials of the Party and the government.
Amid
the playing of the welcome music, Kim Jong Un appeared in the auditorium
together with his respected daughter and wife, being greeted with a thunderous
standing ovation of the audience.
All
the participants raised stormy cheers of "Hurrah!", looking up to the
respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the symbol of mightiness and heroism of Juche
Korea and great representative of the great dignity and brilliant honor who is
raising the national power and might of the DPRK to the eminence of the century
with his outstanding leadership and political ability and ushering in a new
dynamic era when a rich country with a strong army is being built by dint of
self-respect, self-sustenance and self-defence.
He
waved back to the enthusiastically cheering crowds as a token of his warm
greeting of best wishes to all the audience and all the beloved people of the
country seeing in the New Year.
Among
the audience were Kim Tok Hun, Jo Yong Won, Choe Ryong Hae and Ri Pyong Chol,
members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee,
and other leading officials of the Party and government and officials of armed
forces organs.
The
performance was enjoyed by the participants in the 9th Plenary Meeting of the
8th Central Committee of the WPK, participants in New Year celebrations,
Pyongyang citizens, service personnel and students of the revolutionary
schools.
Members
of the diplomatic corps here watched the performance.
The
performance was given by artistes of prestigious art troupes, including the
State Merited Chorus and the Wangjaesan Art Troupe, students of art education
institutions in the city, ice sportsmen and children.
The
performance began with the prelude "We Sing of the Party." Put on the
stage were colorful numbers, including monumental songs of the times praising
the WPK, an invincible Party which unites all the people under the banner of
patriotism with its strong might of guidance and successfully leads
Korean-style socialism to an overall upsurge and development.
There
came the last moment of the year and the bells began tolling solemnly to
celebrate New Year's Eve at 00:00 on January 1 along with the ignition of the
torch of celebration and the display of fireworks in the sky above the capital
city.
Children
presented bouquets to Kim Jong Un and leading officials of the Party and the
government and wished them a happy New Year.
The
venue of the celebration was overflowing with great happiness and boundless
excitement of seeing in the New Year with the benevolent father of the great
socialist family.
The
performance, which ended with the finale "Snow Is Falling on New Year's
Day", "We Are the Happiest in the World" and "Our National
Flag", redoubled the high revolutionary enthusiasm and fighting spirit of
all the people to bring earlier the rosy future of our powerful state with the
inexhaustible power of their unity based on loyalty and patriotism under the
ever-victorious guidance of the great Party Central Committee.
At
the end of the performance, loud cheers of
"Hurrah!"
for Kim Jong Un rocked the venue again and fireworks were let off to gorgeously
decorate the nocturnal sky.
The
last night of the old year was beautifully decorated and the prelude to the New
Year was open magnificently.
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