A memorial concert was given at the Samjiyon Theatre on July 8, the 30th anniversary of the demise of President Kim Il Sung, as a reflection of the noblest reverence of all the people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the officers and soldiers of the Korean People's Army for the sacred life and immortal exploits of the great father of the nation-building and the eternal leader of the revolution.

The venue of the concert was filled with the ardent yearning for Kim Il Sung, who is alive in the hearts of the Korean people and progressive mankind as the most prominent leader and peerlessly great sage of the 20th century.

Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, saw the concert.

Kim Tok Hun, premier of the Cabinet of the DPRK, and Choe Son Hui, minister of Foreign Affairs, watched the concert.

Among the audience were Kim Yong Nam, Pak Pong Ju and other veteran cadres who had worked in the Party, government and military for a long time, bereaved family members of the anti-Japanese revolutionary martyrs, those related to the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle and their family members, merited persons and citizens of Pyongyang.

The national anthem of the DPRK was played.

The concert started with the chorus and orchestra "Our Leader". Put on the stage were famous songs of memories, full of the greatest honor and pride of the Korean people in having lived and struggled holding in high esteem as their leader and father the peerlessly great man unprecedented in human history, and hymns dedicated to the immortality of the leader.

The performers sang songs of reverence for Kim Il Sung who had turned the history of national distress, which had been dark with subservience to great powers and national ruin, into the brilliant one of national prosperity under the banner of Juche and opened up a bright prospect of socialist Korea, covering a road full of adversities for the freedom and happiness of the people and independent development of the country and the nation for 70 years since he embarked on the road of the revolution in his teens.

Through the numbers adding to their pride in the great single-hearted unity, eternal dignity and bright future rooted in the era of glory, the audience realized more keenly that the heroic epic course of the President, who set a world example in building a socialist state and opened up a new era of independence with his rare wisdom, outstanding ideology and theory and original revolutionary practice, is an example of the most genuine life and struggle which will shine forever as long as there are the people and the revolution continues.

The concert, which sang the praise of the immutable principle that the revolutionary ideology and undying feats of the President are the precious treasures guaranteeing the eternal prosperity of the powerful country, reached its climax with the all-people hymn "The Leader Will Always Be with Us".

All the audience renewed their firm will to make the great history of building a rich country with a powerful army continue as the eternal history of the powerful Kim Il Sung's country, cherishing their sacred name of the descendants of the great Comrade Kim Il Sung.