It noted that leader Kim Jong Il in his lifetime set forth the task to intensify the agitation activities.

He urged enterprises to enhance the working people's class consciousness and cultural level through dynamic mass cultural work by following the example of the People's Army, it said, adding:

He said that publicity and agitation should be conducted to suit the specific conditions without rigid formality and pattern, stressing the great influence and strong appeal of the artistic agitation in the present stirring period.

To this end art squads should go out to production sites to touch the hearts of masses, he said.

Agitation campaign is now brisk at construction sites across the country including those of the Huichon Power Station and the Mansudae area in Pyongyang, ITAR-TASS said.

Art squads are intensifying the agitation activities in various forms and methods with the main stress put on educating the people in loyalty to the party, the leader and the socialist system, it added.