When he entered the auditorium, the performers and audience enthusiastically welcomed him, extending the highest glory and deepest thanks to him.

Through the concert the performers clearly showed the firm faith and resolution and indomitable will of the service personnel and people of the DPRK to accomplish without fail the revolutionary cause of Juche started in Mt. Paektu, rallied close around Kim Jong Un.

The band's solemn sound and dynamic, appealing and militant melody truthfully represented the ideological and mental world and invincible spirit of the heroic KPA advancing along the road indicated by the party, flying the red flag of the WPK as the first colors of the revolution.

Kim Jong Un expressed great satisfaction over the band's successful concert and warmly congratulated all its members on its 70th founding anniversary.

He recalled that the band has covered a glorious road, arousing the service personnel and people to developing the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK and building a rich and powerful country for the past seven decades since it played military music at the inaugural ceremony of the Pyongyang Institute founded by President Kim Il Sung as the nation's first central cadre-training base after the liberation of Korea.

Leader Kim Jong Il repeatedly guided concerts of the band, developing the military music into the militarized one and the world's leading one, he noted, adding that the band has grown to be the nation's first military band, Juche-based revolutionary band and a group of buglers speaking for the stand of the Korean revolutionaries.

The band is like the face of the state, symbol of the KPA and a powerful weapon instilling revolutionary enthusiasm and fighting spirit into all the service personnel and people, he stressed.

It is the firm determination of the Party Central Committee to win the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche with the band in the van of the revolutionary ranks playing military music more loudly, he noted.

He set forth the tasks to be carried out by the band and took necessary measures.

He had a photo session with the officials, creators and musicians of the band.

Among the audience were Kim Ki Nam, Pak Yong Sik, Ri Myong Su, Jo Nam Jin, Ryom Chol Song and Jo Kyong Chol and service personnel.