Kim Jong Un Enjoys Concert of KPA Military Band

Pyongyang, February 23 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, enjoyed a concert marking the 70th founding anniversary of the KPA Military Band. Kim Jong Un expressed great satisfaction over the band's successful concert and warmly congratulated all its members on its 70th founding anniversary. He recalled that the band has covered a glorious road, arousing the service personnel and people to developing the revolutionary armed forces of the DPRK and building a rich and powerful country for the past seven decades since it played military music at the inaugural ceremony of the Pyongyang Institute founded by President Kim Il Sung as the nation's first central cadre-training base after the liberation of Korea. Leader Kim Jong Il repeatedly guided concerts of the band, developing the military music into an army and battle-style one and the world's leading one, he noted, adding that the band has grown to be the nation's first military band, Juche-based revolutionary band and a group of buglers speaking for the stand of the Korean revolutionaries. The band is like the face of the state, symbol of the KPA and a powerful weapon instilling revolutionary enthusiasm and fighting spirit into all the service personnel and people, he stressed. He had a photo session with the officials, creators and musicians of the band. -0-