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Kim Jong Il calls for spreading "soldier culture" throughout DPRK
17/11/2008 17:34

Kim Jong Il, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), called for spreading "soldier culture" throughout the country, after enjoying another art performance by soldiers, the official Rodong Sinmun daily said today.
Kim praised the "soldier culture," saying it fully represented the spirit of the times, militant optimism and rich emotion, and set a model for all Korean people to follow.
He said that DPRK soldiers have not only been trained as fighters intensely loyal to the party and the leader, the country and its people, but have grown into an invincible revolutionary army with noble morality and high cultural attainments. The country is indestructible when defended by such forces, he added.
At the end of the performance Kim Jong Il waved back to the enthusiastically cheering performers and congratulated them on their successful presentation. It was the second report of Kim attending a soldiers' art performance in two days.
The report didn't give the exact time and location of the performance,which was part of the "32nd art festival of service persons of the Korean People's Army."


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