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Music and Dance Performance Given by Koreans in Japan
Pyongyang, April 17 (KCNA) -- A music and dance performance "Under the care of the eternal sun" was given at the Korean Hall of Culture in Tokyo on April 14 to celebrate the 110th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung.

Among the audience were Ho Jong Man, chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), Pak Ku Ho, first vice-chairman and director of the Organizational Department of the Chongryon Central Standing Committee, vice-chairpersons, advisors and department directors of the Central Standing Committee, leading officials of central leadership bodies and affiliates of Chongryon, chairpersons of the Chongryon headquarters in the Kanto area, other officials and Koreans in Japan, and students of Korean University.

In the performance, a narrator referred to the excitement of Chongryon officials and compatriots celebrating the 110th birth anniversary of President Kim Il Sung as a great auspicious holiday to be etched in the national history, saying that the compatriots' yearning for the President is growing deeper as the days go by.

The performance began with the playing of national orchestral music of the all-people hymn "Song of Loyalty" by artistes of the Kumgang-san Opera Troupe of Chongryon and students of Korean University.

In such numbers as song and dance "Let us sing and dance", solo "Do prosper, my homeland" and mixed duet "We sing of our homeland", the performers sang of the deep gratitude to the President who brought the Koreans in Japan under the care of their homeland, showed warm benevolence for them and provided them with genuine life as overseas citizens of the dignified DPRK.

Put on the stage were numbers vividly showing the deep reverence of Koreans in Japan for the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and their great honor and happiness of being blessed by the great leaders generation after generation.

Other numbers represented their gratitude to the President who took warm care of Koreans in Japan and led their movement and their great joy of celebrating his anniversary as the great auspicious holiday in the nation's history.

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