He first went round the newly-built North Hwanghae Provincial Art Theater.

He looked round the interior and exterior of the theater built in grand modern style to acquaint himself in detail with its construction.

After learning about details of the theater ranging from the architectural style and contents of the theater to its decoration, facilities and acoustics, he said that the theater not only has a good inner structure and has been constructed at a high level but is impeccable in contents and style as a palace of culture and art. He highly appreciated the feats performed by the builders in successfully building such a modern theater.

Then he watched an inaugural art performance given by the provincial art troupe at the theater.

The artistes put on the stage mixed duet and chorus "Fortune of Korea", female solo "It Is Spring Scenery and Sun Rays", dance "Pongsan Mask Dance", male solo "Believe in Future", chorus "Let's Dash ahead Like the Wind towards a Thriving Nation" and other colorful numbers.

As the art performance was over, Kim Jong Il waved back to the enthusiastically cheering performers and audience and congratulated the artistes on their successful performance.

He expressed great expectation and conviction that all the artistes of the art troupe would conduct dynamic revolutionary performing activities in the future, too to powerfully encourage the working people in the province to wage a fresh drive and perform feats.

He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, chief secretary of the North Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK, and Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and Jang Song Thaek and Pak Nam Gi, department directors of the C.C., the WPK, and other leading officials of the WPK Central Committee.