Presented to the festival are 360-odd works drawn by fine artists and working adults, school youth and children.

Ri Kyong Rim, an official of the Ministry of Culture, told KCNA:

Actuality and popularity are characteristics of those works.

The draftspersons creatively applied in their drawings various kinds of techniques to raise the formative artistic quality.

The works deal with a wide range of social life such themes as artistic representation of the leader, the greatness of the Workers' Party of Korea, revolutionary traditions, class education, building of socialism and army-people unity.

Nowadays, the pencil drawing is getting popular among people of all walks of life in the country for the simplicity of material and the quickness of creation.