Choe Ik Gyu Meets Foreign Delegations

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Choe Ik Gyu, chairman of the organizing committee of the 23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival, separately met and had friendly talks with the Chinese government cultural delegation led by Shan Jixiang, director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, and the Cambodian cultural delegation led by In Siyonda, secretary of State of the Ministry of Culture and Arts. Officials concerned and the Chinese ambassador to the DPRK were on hand.

U.S. Moves to Increase Its Forces' Role under Fire

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification of south Korea reportedly called a press conference in front of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Seoul on April 6 at which it denounced the U.S. for scheming to let its forces in south Korea play an Asia-Pacific regional role under the pretext of "strategic flexibility" instead of performing their role just in Korea. The organization disclosed the fact that recently the U.S. and the south Korean authorities held a meeting on the issue of "strategic flexibility" in camera.
    If the U.S. forces in south Korea are allowed to play that regional role, it will spark an arms race in Northeast Asia, increase south Korea's political and military dependence upon the U.S. and add to the obstacles to peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula resulting from their permanent presence.
    The "strategic flexibility" touted by the U.S. is nothing but subterfuge to use the bases of its forces in south Korea as a springboard for world aggression, the organization said. At the end of the press conference a letter of protest was handed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

Event Held in S. Korea to Check Japan's Attempt to Revive Militarism

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- A function was reportedly held in Seoul on April 6 to check Japan's attempt to revive militarism. It was sponsored by the headquarters of youth and students of the South Side's Preparatory Committee for Joint Functions of Compatriots in the South, North and Overseas for Implementing the June 15 Joint Declaration. A joint resolution of compatriots in the south, the north and overseas read out at the function noted that Japan's undisguised moves to veer to the Right and revive militarism are hurting the dignity of the Korean nation and obstructing Korea's reunification.
    Speakers at the function said that the Korean people can never forget the colonial slavery imposed upon Korea during the Japanese imperialists' colonial rule and they will surely force Japan to apologize and compensate for the crime.
    Referring to the conspiracy between the U.S. and Japan getting pronounced over the issue of Tok Islet, they denounced the U.S. for its egging Japan on to realize its ambition to revive militarism.
    They urged the south Korean government to reject cooperation with the U.S. and take positive measures to liquidate the remnants of the Japanese imperialists.
    After the function was over, the participants staged a candlelight demonstration as far as the Japanese embassy in Seoul.

Japan urged to Cancel Results of Screening of History Textbooks

     Tokyo, April 10 (KNS-KCNA) -- The Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology should cancel at once the results of screening of history textbooks and move to bar all the distorted textbooks from being used. Jo Han Ju, director of the Educational Department of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), demanded this in a statement on April 6 in protest against Japan's retrogressive revision of those textbooks.
    He continued:
    The racket kicked up by the Japanese right-wing reactionaries in a bid to hide Japan's past crimes and deny the truth of history is an unbearable insult to the peoples of various Asian countries including the Korean people who suffered a lot due to the Japanese imperialists in the past.
    Moreover, the Japanese reactionaries, as if it were not enough with their distortion of history, dealt even with the so-called "issue of abduction" in the textbooks, the issue that had already found a solution. This is little short of deliberately fanning up antipathy and prejudice toward the DPRK which has made every sincere effort to resolve the issue.

Cuban Diplomats Commemorate Day of Sun

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Giraldo Abreu Morales, military attache of the Cuban embassy here, hosted a reception on Monday evening to commemorate the Day of the Sun and the 12th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's election as chairman of the DPRK National Defense Commission. Speeches were made at the reception.
    Present on invitation were general officers and officers of the Korean People's Army. Ambassador Ruben Perez Valdes and staff members of the Cuban embassy were on hand.

Workers Vow to Remain Loyal to Kim Jong Il

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Workers and trade union members met in front of the statue of President Kim Il Sung on Mansu Hill Monday to vow to hold the President in high esteem for all ages and remain loyal to the Songun revolutionary leadership of Kim Jong Il. Ryom Sun Gil, chairman of the C.C., the General Federation of Trade Unions of Korea (GFTUK), made a report at the meeting, which was followed by speeches.
    They recalled that penetrating deep into the importance of workers' role in carrying out the cause of socialism, Kim Il Sung put forward the idea and theory of building the Juche-based trade unions and indicated the orientation and ways for their actions in each period and at every stage of the developing revolution, thus training them to be a reliable helper and defender of the Party.
    His revolutionary cause has been creditably carried forward and steadily accelerated by Kim Jong Il, they said.
    Then, led by a caller, the participants solemnly pledged to accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche started in Mt. Paektu to the last, holding Kim Il Sung in high esteem for all ages and under the Songun leadership of Kim Jong Il.
    Present at the meeting were Kim Jung Rin, secretary of the C. C., the Workers' Party of Korea, and leading officials of the GFTUK Central Committee.

Ten-day Film Show Opens

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- A ten-day film show was opened to commemorate the Day of the Sun, the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung. In the period, documentary and feature films dealing with the glorious revolutionary life of Kim Il Sung, who opened up a new era of national rebirth and prosperity in Korea with his great idea, leadership and noble virtues and performed immortal exploits for the country and the people, the times and history, will be screened at cinemas and cultural houses across the country.
    Also shown will be films introducing the Songun revolutionary feats of leader Kim Jong Il and the Korean army and people working hard to make a new history of building a prosperous and powerful country under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea. Among them are documentary films "The Leader Is Great Father of Our People" and "Under the Guidance of Great Illustrious Commander" and feature films "Star of Korea" and "The Sun of the Nation".
    An opening ceremony took place at the People's Palace of Culture Monday.
    Minister of Culture Choe Ik Gyu made an opening address at the ceremony.
    At the end of it, the participants watched a documentary film "They Were Always Together on the Road to Bring About the People's Well-being" and a feature film "They Were Common Soldiers".

Foreign Acrobats Give Their Premieres

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Acrobats from various countries attending the 23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival gave their premieres at the Pyongyang Circus on Monday. The performance started with Russian acrobats' "aerial swinging".
    They repeatedly showcased movements requiring high skill including somersault. A Swedish acrobat who had won a special prize in an international circus festival in his "rope plastic acrobatics" successfully presented a variety of movements from a rope hanging down vertically.
    Acrobats of a Chinese Inner Mongolian acrobatic group performed "Piling up bowls by 5 persons," while riding a single wheel cycle. Mongolian acrobats in "Keeping balance on wire" presented difficult movements such as standing on each other's shoulders and head and keeping balance.
    Russian and Portuguese acrobats staged pieces of adventurous illusionary jugglery.
    Spectators were delighted by "Turning rings" and other numbers presented by Swedish acrobats in which they skillfully performed various movements requiring high skill.
    The performers were presented with bouquets by spectators.
    The performance goes on.

Japan's Reckless Moves to Grab Tok Islet Accused

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The Japanese reactionaries are becoming more undisguised than ever before in their acts to infringe upon the sovereignty and dignity of the Korean people. This is evidenced by the fact that Chief Cabinet Secretary of Japan Hosoda asserted at the joint meeting of officials of the Liberal Democratic Party concerned with the Cabinet held on March 24 that the issue of Tok Islet should be brought to the International Court of Justice. This comes under fire by a signed commentary of Minju Joson Tuesday. It says: The Korean people will never allow the Japanese reactionaries to infringe upon the sovereignty and interests of the Korean nation and bring again war disasters to Asia. Tok Islet, though small, is a symbol of the sovereignty of the Korean nation and its precious treasure which can not be bartered for anything.
    The Korean ancestors discovered the islet earlier than the Japanese and listed it as a treasure of the country. It has long been used by Koreans to make a living.
    Japan's claim to the islet betrays the true colors of the robbers who are keen to loot others' things.
    The modern history of Japan is recorded with its invasion and plunder of other countries.
    The present political situation in Japan reminds one of the idea and fervor for overseas invasion veiled with what it called "nationalism" and "patriotism" which had prevailed there before its launch of continental aggression in the past.
    Frustrating Japan's moves to grab the islet is an issue of protecting the dignity and sovereignty of the Korean nation and, at the same time, a just struggle for checking the Japanese militarists' ambition for overseas expansion and preserving peace and security in Asia and the rest of the world.

KCNA Flails Japanfs Distortion of Blood-Stained History

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) - It was reported that the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology on April 5 approved the history textbook compiled by the Society for History Textbook Reform, a right-wing organization, and printed by the Fusosha while announcing the results of screening history textbooks for middle schoolers for 2006. In the textbooks the Japanese reactionaries beautified and justified their history of aggression by all means and tried to openly praise feats..
    Japan abducted and forcibly drafted more than 8.4 million Koreans to drive them to shambles of war of aggression and slave labour before killing many of them in cold blood after occupying Korea by force of arms in the last century. Worse still, it forced at least 200,000 Korean women into sexual slavery for the imperial Japanese army. However, there is no reference to these crimes in those new history textbooks.
    On the contrary, their publishers wrote that Japanfs colonization of Korea
    helped it in its modernization and described Tok Islet, part of the inviolable territory of Korea, as part of the Japanese territory, openly revealing its 100 year-old ambition to grab the islet.
    Japan falsified truth by describing such wars of aggression as War for Greater East Asia and Pacific War that brought unspeakable misfortune and pain to the Asian people as a war for self-defence" and "a liberation war.
    Japan distorted its history in textbooks despite the torrents of protest and denunciation of the Korean people and other Asians. This is an intolerable insult to the Korean nation demanding Japan liquidate its past and an open challenge to international justice and conscience.
    Japan's recent move to tamper with its history textbooks has reached an extremely grave phase as it undisguisedly laid bare its militarist ambition for reinvasion of Korea and other Asian countries, to say nothing of its design to cover up its past crimes and evade the redemption of its past crimes.
    Lurking behind such move is the persistent and sinister intention of the Japanese reactionaries to arm their descendants with the reactionary idea of aggression through the education in the distorted history and woo them to follow in the footsteps of their ancestors and go out for reinvasion.
    Through this Japan seeks to realize the old dream of Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere at any cost and emerge the leader of Asia.
    It is 100 years since Japanfs illegal occupation of Korea and 60 years after its defeat.
    The Japanese reactionaries, however, have totally denied and grossly distorted Japan's blood-stained history of aggression even this time which reminds people of the crimes committed by it in the past. The reality once again clearly indicates that they are fanatic militarists whose physiology is aggression and war.
    History can never be changed by any distortion nor be erased by any attempt to cover it up.
    With no desperate effort can the Japanese reactionaries ever erase Japan's blood-stained history of crimes committed against the Korean and other Asian peoples or shirk the responsibility for them.
    Should Japan embark upon road of militarist reinvasion instead of drawing a lesson from the defeat and disgrace it suffered 60 years back due to its aggression and plunder, it will meet stronger protest and condemnation from the Asian countries and the rest of the world.
    The Korean people will never tolerate the Japanese reactionariesf distortion of history but certainly force them to pay for all its past crimes.

Premiere of 23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- The April Spring Friendship Art Festival, an annual traditional event on the occasion of the significant Day of the Sun common to the humankind, raised the curtain of its 23rd performance with a large attendance at different theatres in Pyongyang Monday evening. The theatres included the Ponghwa Art Theatre, the Pyongyang Grand Theatre, the State Theatrical Theatre and the Yun I Sang Concert Hall. The premiere of the festival was given by veteran art troupes, international and national concours winners and famous artistes from many countries. The performers highly praised President Kim Il Sung as the sun of Juche and a peerlessly great man.
    A female vocal soloist of the Indonesian Guruh Sukarno Art Troupe put on the stage the song "Cantata to Marshal Kim Il Sung" and national concours winners and other artistes of the Chinese Hangzhou Song and Dance Troupe, which proved successful in several national art festivals and contests, mixed duet song "Song of Loyalty", a masterpiece of Korea.
    Artistes of the Russian Sveshnikov State Academic Chorus with long tradition raised the curtain of their performance with the immortal revolutionary paean "Song of General Kim Jong Il". And they fully represented the ardent love of the Russian people for their motherland through such chorus numbers as "The Just War" and "Lark."
    A violinist of the Moldovan music troupe superbly played the famous song "Nostalgia" and a female vocal soloist of the art troupe of the Japan-Korea Musical and Artistic Interchange Society ardently sang the famous song "Dear General, Where Are You." A female vocal soloist of the Singaporean art troupe admirably sang "Whenever Spring Comes", a song from the famous revolutionary opera "The Flower Girl", to touch the heartstrings of the audience. She has participated in the festival several times.
    A male vocal soloist of the Mongolian art troupe fluently sang the Korean song "Please Receive Our Salute" in Korean and a baritone of the Armenian group of famous artistes put on the stage the song "Green Pine Standing on Nam Hill".
    Artistes of the Polish Mazowsze Song and Dance Ensemble, which is well-known among Koreans through its several visits to the DPRK, staged dances "Meeting" and "Obereg" and other numbers, in which they expressed the national emotions of the Polish people with animated and elegant rhythmic movements to the tune of cheerful music.
    Oleksandr Zhuravchak, a Ukrainian player who is an international folk musical instrument concours winner, fully represented the emotion of the Ukrainian people with cheerful melodies by skillfully playing various folk musical instruments one after another.
    Put on the stage were also a piano solo by Alberto Joya of the Cuban music troupe, who participated in the festival several times, and "Song on Mary" by a British vocal soloist who excellently represented the song as required by the motif.
    The performances were appreciated by senior officials of ministries and national institutions, members of the festival organizing committee, officials concerned, artistes, working people, youth and students in Pyongyang and diplomatic envoys and officials of foreign embassies here, foreign guests and overseas compatriots.
    The festival performances will continue.

National Meeting Marks Anniversary of Kimilsungia

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- A national meeting was held at the People's Palace of Culture here on April 12 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the appearance of Kimilsungia, the flower representing the sun. Present there were secretaries of the C.C., the Workers' Party of Korea Choe Thae Bok and Jong Ha Chol, Chairman of the Korean Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee Kang Nung Su and working people in the city.
    Also on hand were former President of Indonesia Megawati Soekarnoputri who is chairwoman of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle and her party, Ratna Sari Dewy Soekarno who is widow of ex-President of Indonesia Soekarno and her party and other foreign guests and overseas Koreans who are staying here to attend the commemorations of the anniversary and the 7th Kimilsungia Festival, and staff members of the Indonesian embassy here.
    Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, made a report at the meeting.
    Kimilsungia that appeared 40 years ago, carrying the august name of the great man symbolizes the highest glory and appreciation extended by progressive humankind to President Kim Il Sung, the reporter noted, referring to the background against which this immortal flower came into being and how it has been propagated. The reporter went on:
    Reflected in the flower are the sincere feelings of the Indonesian people including Soekarno, the first president of Indonesia, and progressive people of the world who revered and praised Kim Il Sung.
    President Soekarno invited Kim Il Sung to visit his country when the commemorations of the tenth anniversary of the first meeting of Asian and African countries were scheduled to be held in Bandung of Indonesia in April Juche 54 (1965).
    When Kim Il Sung visited the world-famous Bogor Botanical Garden, the reverence of the Indonesian people for him was expressed to the full.
    Soekarno guided Kim Il Sung to a potted flower, beautiful and rare, and explained the reason why an Indonesian famous botanist had bred and cultivated the new flower heart and soul and expressed his wish to name it after the President of the DPRK.
    Kim Il Sung, very humble as he was, declined this offer, saying there was no need to give his name even to the flower as he had achieved nothing particular. Hearing this, Soekarno repeatedly asked Kim Il Sung to accept this offer, noting he deserved such high honor as he had done a lot for the good of humankind.
    This happened on April 13, Juche 54 (1965), a significant event recorded in history. It was thanks to Soekarno's son who remained true to his father's lifetime intention that the botanical name of Kimilsungia was formally registered at the International Orchis Family Society to be known as a world famous flower.
    It is ascribable to the benevolent leadership of Kim Jong Il that Kimilsungia has been in full bloom all over the world generation after generation.
    Two potted Kimilsungias that struck their roots in the land of Korea have been massively propagated in a brief span of time under the care of Kim Jong Il. This flower has been widely distributed in different countries of the world thanks to the sincere efforts of many foreign friends.
    Kim Jong Il saw to it that the First Kimilsungia Festival was held in April Juche 88 (1999) and the Kimilsungia Festival was made an annual event. He specified the form and methods of organizing the festival.
    The reporter said that the Korean people would keep Kimilsungia and Kimjongilia in fuller bloom with all wisdom and intense loyalty and beautifully decorate the immortal flower festivals in order to powerfully demonstrate the strong spirit and might of Juche Korea advancing full of confidence of sure victory and optimism.

Educational Aid Fund and Stipends to Children of Korean Residents in Japan

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent educational aid fund and stipends amounting to 216.76 million yen for development of the democratic national education of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). The total amount of the educational aid fund and stipends sent by President Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il to Chongryon for the democratic national education of the children of Koreans in Japan in 151 installments so far has reached 45,533,723,000 yen.

Former Indonesian President Here

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Former Indonesian President Megawati Soekarnoputri, chairwoman of the Central Directive Council of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle, and her party arrived here Tuesday to participate in the commemorations of the 40th anniversary of the naming of Kimilsungia, the flower of the sun, and the 7th Kimilsungia Festival. They were met at the airport by Kang Nung Su, chairman of the Korean Kimilsungia-Kimjongilia Committee who is vice-chairman of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Hendrati Sukendar Munthe, Indonesian ambassadress to the DPRK, and her embassy officials.

Kim Yong Nam Meets with Members of Chinese Technical Group

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Tuesday visited the construction site of the Taean Friendship Glass Factory now rising as a symbol of the Korea-China friendship and encouraged the members of the Chinese technical group in their labour drive. After going round the construction site, he visited their lodging quarters and met with them. He congratulated them on their achievements, expressing the expectation that the factory now under construction under the deep care of the leaders, governments and peoples of the two countries would be completed qualitatively as scheduled.
    Present there were Jon Sung Hun, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Tong Jong Ho, minister of Construction and Building-Materials Industries, Kim Hyong Jun, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Ri Ryong Nam, vice-minister of Foreign Trade, and officials concerned, Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and embassy officials.
    That day officials of the Presidium of the SPA handed the aid materials sincerely prepared by them to the builders of the factory.

Kimilsungia Reflecting Reverence for Great Man

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Forty years have passed since Kimilsungia belonging to the orchid family was bred by a biologist of Indonesia. When President Kim Il Sung was visiting Indonesia in April Juche 54 (1965), Sukarno, ex-president of Indonesia, named the flower after Kim Il Sung and presented it to him in praise of his great contribution to the independence of humankind.
    Ten years after then, the Bogor Botanical Garden of Indonesia sent Kimilsungia to Pyongyang so that the flower might be cultivated in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
    Over the last three decades Kimilsungia has spread across the country.
    More than 230 Kimilsungia green houses have been built throughout the country.
    Kimilsungia pots cultivated in green houses and families and in other countries have been sent to Kimilsungia festivals held every year in commemoration of the Day of the Sun, the birth anniversary of Kim Il Sung.
    Over 27,000 pots of Kimilsungia had been shown in the festivals which have taken place since 1999.

Pyongyang in Festive Attire

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Pyongyang is being decorated in a festive attire with the Day of the Sun (April 15), the birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung, drawing near. This year in which the 60th anniversaries of the liberation of the country and the Workers' Party of Korea fall, the citizens are commemorating the Day of the Sun with more ardent yearning for the President than ever before.
    Streets, residential quarters and working places are festooned with posters, streamers and colorful decorations.
    A stream of servicepersons, working people from all walks of life, youth and students visit the Kumsusan Memorial Palace where the President lies in state, Mangyongdae, his native place, and other revolutionary sites associated with his immortal exploits.
    Colorful functions including retrospective meetings, symposiums, lectures and art performances have taken place in different places of the city in praise of his greatness and noble virtue.
    The 23rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival, which raised the curtain on the tenth, is stirring up the festive atmosphere.
    The preparation for the 7th Kimilsungia Festival is progressing apace at the final stage.
    This year's festival to commemorate the President's birth anniversary and the 40th year of Kimilsungia breeding will draw 20 more units and more foreign delegations and several thousand more Kimilsungia pots than the last one.
    The national art exhibition has opened at the People's Palace of Culture.
    With the Mangyongdae Cup sports contest going on, the 18th International Marathon Race for Mangyongdae Cup was held on April 10 amid great public interest.
    People and students have enjoyed themselves at the fun fairs which restarted operation on the first of the month.
    Various kinds of flowers are adding beauty to streets, parks and recreation grounds.

Injection "Nyuamin" Made in DPRK

     Pyongyang, April 12 (KCNA) -- Scientists of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have succeeded in developing a poly-amino acid injection "Nyuamin". According to Dr. Kim Myong Sim who had led the research team, the injection contains 18 kinds of amino acid including leucine, isoleucine, valine, threonine, lysine and essential amino acid. They are made with protein in industrial by-products.
    It is efficacious for various kinds of dystrophy, post-operation and post-illness weakness, TB, hepatitis and troubles in digestion, absorption and composition of protein.
    The injection gives no negative effect to human body and has not antigen and subacute toxicity. It neither creates nor accumulates any alien substances.
    They also succeeded in making dopamine hydrochloride injection with tyrosine contained in the by-products produced during manufacturing Nyuamin.

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Primera jornada del XXIII Festival

     Pyongyang, 12 de abril (ATCC) -- El Festival Artistico de Amistad Abril en Primavera que tiene lugar tradicionalmente cada ano con motivo del Dia del Sol (15 de abril, cumpleanos del Presidente Kim Il Sung), significativa fiesta comun de la humanidad levanto el dia 11 por la noche el telon de la primera funcion de la vigesima tercera edicion del citado certamen en el Teatro de Arte Ponghwa, el Gran Teatro de Pyongyang, el Teatro Nacional de Drama, la Casa de Musica Yun I Sang y otros de la capital. En las escenas del festival de este dia los ejecutantes elogiaron al Presidente Kim Il Sung como Sol del Juche, gran hombre sin par.
    La solista del conjunto artistico Guruh Sukarno de Indonesia puso en la escena el "Himno al Mariscal Kim Il Sung" y los artistas del Conjunto de Musica y Danza de Hangchou, China el duo mixto de la cancion coreana-imperecedera obra clasica "Cancion de fidelidad".
    Los artistas del Coro Academico Nacional Shveshnikov de Rusia de larga tradicion descorrieron el telon de la funcion con el inmortal himno revolucionario "Cancion del General Kim Jong Il" y ejecutaron en coro "Justa lucha" y "Alondra" demostrando bien sentimientos de caluroso amor del pueblo ruso por su patria.
    El violinista del Conjunto Musical de Moldova ejecuto magnificamente la imperecedera obra clasica "Nostalgia", la solista del conjunto artistico de la Sociedad de Intercambio de Arte y Musica Japon-Corea, la inmortal obra clasica "Donde esta querido General"; la solista del conjunto artistico de Singapur "Cuando llega la primavera de cada ano" de la imperecedera obra clasica-opera revolucionaria "La florista" dando profunda impresion a los espectadores.
    El solista del grupo artistico de Mongolia ejecuto bien en coreano la cancion coreana "Que reciba saludo" y el baritono del Conjunto de Artistas Famosos de Armenia puso en la escena la cancion "Pino verde del monte Nam".
    Los artistas del Conjunto de Cancion y Danza Majovshe de Polonia ejecutaron las piezas "Encuentro" y "Obereg" en las cuales demostraron los sentimientos nacionales de su pueblo a traves de los vividos y hermosos ritmos de baile al son de las melodias alegres.
    Oleksandr Zhuravchak, ejecutante ucraniano premiado en concurso internacional de instrumentos musicales nacionales, al tocar habilmente varios instrumentos nacionales reflejo bien sentimientos de su pueblo.
    En la escena se puso tambien el solo de piano de Alberto Joya del grupo musical de Cuba quien participo varias veces en el festival y la solista inglesa interpreto bien "Cancion de Mary".
    Vieron la funcion los funcionarios directivos de los ministerios y organos centrales, miembros del comite organizador del festival, funcionarios interesados, artistas y trabajadores, jovenes y ninos escolares de la capital, representantes diplomaticos y miembros de embajadas de varios paises en Corea, huespedes extranjeros y coreanos en ultramar.
    La funcion continua.

Estrenan acrobatas extranjeros en Pyongyang

     Pyongyang, 12 de abril (ATCC) -- Los acrobatas de varios paises del mundo, participantes en el 23 Festival Artistico de Amistad Abril en Primavera, ofrecieron el dia 11 su primer espectaculo en el Circo de Pyongyang. El telon se descorrio con el "Columpio en el aire" de los cirqueros rusos.
    Los ejecutantes mostraron uno tras otro sus diestros movimientos como las vueltas en el aire.
    En particular, saltaba a la vista el cirquero sueco, galardonado con premio especial en un festival internacional de circo, quien en su pieza "Figura corporal en la cuerda" cumplia sin fallos varios movimientos en una cuerda tendida verticalmente.
    En su pieza "5 personas haciendo una torre con tazones", los integrantes del grupo circense de Mongolia interior de China, montados en una bicicleta de una sola rueda, nivelaron alternadamente los tazones.
    Mientras tanto, en su pieza "Equilibrismo en la cuerda de hierro", los acrobatas mongoles mostraron excelentes actuaciones, que requieren alta tecnologia, al mantenerse equilibrados sobre una hilera con sus colegas encaramados por encima de su espalda y cabeza.
    Tambien, los magos de Rusia y Portugal hechizaron al publico con sus aventureras piezas fantasticas.
    Por otra parte, se destacaron otras piezas, en especial, "Dando vueltas a los aros" de los suecos quienes realizaron a la diestra varios movimientos de gran maestria.
    Trabajadores capitalinos entregaron ramos de flores a los ejecutantes para felicitar la exitosa funcion.
    La funcion prosigue.