Present there were Sok Nam Chol, chief secretary of the Committee of the Ministry of Culture of the Workers' Party of Korea, officials, creators and artistes in the field of culture and arts, teachers and students in the field of art education.

A report was made at the meeting.

The reporter said that Chairman Kim Jong Il, who unfolded a plan for comprehensively carrying forward and developing the method of studying as anti-Japanese guerrillas did and entrusted the honorable task of creating an example of the question-and-answer study method to the field of culture and arts, comprehensively indicated tasks and ways for bringing about a fresh turn in the study of Kimilsungism in his historic work.

The field of culture and arts has held artistes' question-and-answer study contest on a regular basis every year on the occasion of November 5 when the 1st National Meeting of Artistes Study Contest took place, the reporter said, adding that through this course, officials, creators and artistes deeply grasp the immortal works of the peerlessly great men and their glorious revolutionary history and apply them to the work.

He said that the field of culture and arts has conducted a substantial question-and-answer study contest to deeply grasp the personality of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un as a great man, grasp the essence of the famous works of the peerlessly great men and firmly arm themselves with the Party's Juche-oriented idea and theory on art and literature, clearly demonstrating its advantages and vitality.

He called upon all officials, creators and artistes to turn out in the sacred struggle to give fuller play to the advantages of the Party's traditional method of studying through questions and answers the and usher in a new heyday of Juche-oriented literature and arts and thus fulfill their mission and duty as literary and art workers in the great era of Kim Jong Un.