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Kim Jong-un attends military band concert

Feb. 23, 2016 - 11:59 By KH디지털2

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has attended a concert marking the anniversary of the army's military band, the country's media reported Tuesday.

Kim "enjoyed" the concert and spoke with members of the Korean People's Army Military Band about its role in "instilling revolutionary enthusiasm and fighting spirit into all the service personnel and people," the Korean Central News Agency said in an English dispatch, monitored in Seoul.

"Kim Jong-un expressed great satisfaction over the band's successful concert and warmly congratulated all its members on its 70th founding anniversary," the report said.

"It is the firm determination of the Party Central Committee to win the final victory of the revolutionary cause of Juche with the band in the van of the revolutionary ranks playing military music more loudly," it quoted Kim as saying.

The central committee of the ruling Workers' Party is the North's key governing body. Juche refers to the North's founding ideology of self-reliance.

Kim was accompanied by some of his top aides, including party secretary Kim Ki-nam, defense chief Pak Yong-sik and chief of the KPA general staff Ri Myong-su, KCNA said. (Yonhap)