A typical famous wartime song, widely sung by the civilians of the DPRK and the brave Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers during the war, is "Song of National Defence".

Upon hearing the news that the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet clique ignited a war of aggression against the DPRK in June 1950, angry voices burst out all over the country. Many people volunteered for military service on the war front and "Song of National Defence" resounded far and wide in different parts of the country.

The song "Advance", created in seven days after the outbreak of the war, gave great strength and courage to the KPA soldiers advancing toward the south. Wherever this song resounded as a chorus, an ever-victorious division of the U.S. imperialists and any impregnable fortress were destroyed like a wet mud wall.

The song "To a Decisive Battle", created during the battles for defending Height 1211, encouraged the KPA soldiers to display their matchless bravery and self-sacrificing spirit in every battle against the enemies.

Singing "My Song in the Trench" and "The Dear Home in My Native Village" created in the trench under a hail of bullets and shells, the brave KPA soldiers honorably defended the precious land of the country, which was liberated by President Kim Il Sung and which ensured their true life.

Such wartime songs were heard not only on the war front but also in the rear.

The civilians in the rear conducted the work for assistance to the KPA and the wartime production without letup despite the barbarous bombing by enemy planes and achieved precious successes conducive to the victory in the war, singing wartime songs like "Off We Go, Brindled Ox", "At the Spring Site" and "Nobody Knows".

The wartime songs are still now hardening the Korean people's will to annihilate the aggressors and inspiring them to the sacred war to mercilessly wipe out the U.S. imperialists and the puppet group of traitors persistently hell-bent on the anti-DPRK moves.