The song, eulogizing the 5000-year-old history of Korea, its glorious cultural traditions and rich natural resources, was created at the proposition of President Kim Il Sung.

On September 27, Juche 35 (1946), the President met creators and instructed that it was the unanimous desire of the Korean people to sing their emotions of enjoying freedom and happiness after the country's liberation from Japan's colonial rule.

Noting that the people led a happy life under the leadership of the Workers' Party of Korea, but there was no national anthem to meet their sentiment, he called on them to create the song as early as possible.

Korea is a really beautiful country and the Korean people has the 5000-year-old history with brilliant culture, he said, adding the national pride of the Korean people in having beautiful country and glorious traditions should be reflected in the song.

The creators found an inspiration from his instruction and set it to the words.

In June 1947 when the Patriotic Song was taken into deliberations, the President met the creators to give guidance to its composition.

Now, the Patriotic Song is resounding all over the world as a symbol of the revolutionary spirit of the Korean people who are demonstrating the might of the DPRK, single-mindedly united around supreme leader Kim Jong Un.