The audience, who had been waiting for the start of the concert, broke into the rousing cheers of "hurrah" with tears of emotion when Kim Jong Un appeared in the auditorium unexpectedly.

The concert began with the playing of the national anthem. Its numbers included mixed chorus "May, Month of Victory", male solo "Chollima Gallops Forward", female solo "For Another Great Surge under the Uplifted Banner of Self-reliance" and orchestra "We Will Never Forget".

The hero sportspersons who won gold medals at the 30th Olympic Games and workers of the Pyongyang Children's Foodstuff Factory also mounted the stage and sang songs "What Did We Cherish Deep in Our Hearts" and "Boundless Is Our Yearning" with deep emotion.

The performers sang high praises of the glorious history of the struggle in which the Korean people worked world-startling miracles from debris after the war and paved a wide avenue for prosperity despite difficulties and trials under the wise leadership of the peerlessly great men and a bright future of the great Paektusan nation advancing under the line of simultaneously pushing forward the economic construction and the building of nuclear force.

The audience was mesmerized when orchestra and mixed chorus "The Dear Home in My Native Village" and female solo and mixed chorus "Peace Is Guaranteed by Our Arms", in particular, were presented. The artistes sang those songs again in response to the repeated encores.

The concert ended with mixed chorus "The Leader and the General Are Together."

Kim Jong Un, reflecting the feelings of the audience, requested the artistes to repeat the songs "The Dear Home in My Native Village" and "Peace Is Guaranteed by Our Arms."

He warmly congratulated the artistes, expressing great satisfaction over their splendid performance which is distinct in its ideological and thematic content and style and represents the ardent aspiration and desire, high awareness and determination of the Korean people.

Appreciating the Unhasu Orchestra as outpost and reliable agitator on the ideological front of the WPK, he extended thanks to it in the name of the First Secretary of the WPK.

The Unhasu concert marking May Day instills the spirit of defending the socialist country, the will to annihilate the enemies, faith in victory and optimism into the army and people with its might as powerful as a nuclear bomb, he noted, adding it is an excellent concert electrifying the audience and fully reflecting the revolutionary stand and principle of the DPRK.

Noting "The Dear Home in My Native Village", a wartime song strong in philosophical nature and full of patriotism, was excellently represented in the spirit of the era, he said the service personnel and people of the DPRK would turn out in a decisive battle, singing such wartime songs once the second June 25 war breaks out on this land.

"Peace Is Guaranteed by Our Arms" is a very good song which one wishes to listen again and again, he said, adding: This song fully reflects our principled stand toward the enemies who haven't dropped their wicked design to stifle our socialist country.

Thanks to such revolutionary and militant songs as "The Dear Home in My Native Village" and "Peace Is Guaranteed by Our Arms", our service personnel and people will win only victory in their final decisive battle against the enemies, he stressed.

He expressed his expectation and belief that the creators and artistes of the orchestra would powerfully encourage the army and people through creation of arts and performing activities.

Among the audience were Choe Ryong Hae, Kim Kyok Sik, Hwang Pyong So, Kang Phil Hun, Ryom Chol Song, Jo Kyong Chol, Kim Yong Chol, Pak Jong Chon and Jon Chang Bok, Pyongyangites and local people of different strata staying in the capital city.