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Art Squad of Youth League Forty Years Old
Pyongyang, August 31 (KCNA) -- 40 years have passed since the Art Squad of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League was founded in the DPRK.

It has created more than 4 000 pieces of successful art works and conducted performing activities for over 10 300 times at theatres and worksites for effecting a great surge.

Art works of high ideological and artistic value produced by the creators and artistes have contributed to preparing the youth to be the successors to the Songun revolution.

They had the honor of giving art performances and concerts in the presence of Generalissimos Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il for 17 times. They have staged many colorful numbers.

They conducted performing activities at the Ryongsong Machine Complex, Komdok Mining Complex, Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, Kim Chaek Iron and Steel Complex, the construction sites of northern railways and Youth Hero Motorway and other worksites for more than 6 500 times.

They conducted performing activities in foreign countries, representing the revolutionary and optimistic appearance of the young Korean people.

In recent years they put on the stage of the April Spring People's Art Festival works of high ideological and artistic value, emerging a winner.

Creators and artistes were awarded Kim Il Sung Youth Honor Prize and the titles of merited artistes and actors and actresses.

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