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DPRK TV shows Kim Jong Un attending military art show

Xinhua, April 18, 2017 Adjust font size:

The central television of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Tuesday broadcast news footage showing the country's supreme leader Kim Jong Un attending an exclusive military art performance.

The performance was held Sunday to mark the 105th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, founder of the DPRK.

Kim applauded and praised the show performed by the the State Merited Chorus, which sang songs memorizing the late supreme leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong II and expressed absolute loyalty to Kim Jong Un, according to the broadcast.

Two male choruses "Peace Is Guaranteed by Our Arms" and "Revolutionary Armed Forces Uphold leadership of Marshal Only" were the climax of the performance with film showing missile and rocket launches in the background.

Apart from a couple of top officials from the military and Workers' Party of Korea, the spectators were exclusively soldiers and officers who participated in the military parade on Saturday. Endi