April Spring Friendship Art Festival

Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Overseas compatriots took part in the 33rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival, a festival singing in praise of great men to celebrate the significant April holiday as a great auspicious event common to humankind.
An art troupe of Koreans in Japan, with high pride and self-respect of overseas citizens of Juche Korea, put on the festival stage such numbers as prologue "Warm Love of Motherland" and a national instrumental duet "Towards the Future".
The performers sang loudly of the undying feats of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, who gave origin to the Juche-based overseas compatriots' movement and showed deep loving care for Koreans in Japan.
A male solo "Homeland is Marshal Kim Jong Un" and a mixed chorus "Chongryon, Forward Following Marshal Kim Jong Un" showed the steadfast will of Koreans in Japan to trust and follow only the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, the destiny and future of the country and nation, and dynamically open a new heyday of Chongryon (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan).
An art troupe of Koreans in China, too, put colorful numbers on the stage. They included a dance "Song of Big Hauls in the Sea" and an instrumental ensemble "Sea of Apple Trees at the Foot of Chol Pass" that show the eye-opening changes of the socialist homeland, which is thriving day by day under the wise guidance of Kim Jong Un ushering in a new era of comprehensive development with his noble devotion to the people's wellbeing, and the happy looks of the DPRK people.
A Korean soloist in Kazakhstan sang the song "Our Leader" with boundless reverence for the peerlessly great man. -0-