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Art Festival for Celebrating February 16 Held in DPRK

Date: 16/02/2026 | Source: Naenara (En) | Read original version at source

The Third People’s Art Festival for Celebrating February 16 was held with splendour at theatres and halls across the country on February 14 to mark the 84th birth anniversary of Chairman Kim Jong Il .

The venues of performances in the capital city resounded with songs praising the great man and revering him that would be heard endlessly along with the auspicious February holiday.

Performances were given at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre by art groups of the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Light Industry and the Ministry of IT Industry.

The performers put on the stage narrations and songs “Might of Korea” and “A Dear Name”, chorus “February Is Spring” and other numbers in praise of the noble revolutionary life of Kim Jong Il .

Art groups of the Ministry of Railways, the Academy of Agricultural Science and the Hungbu Running Water Plant Management Office under the Pyongyang Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Management Bureau put on the stage numbers of high ideological and artistic value at Ponghwa Art Theatre to depict the history of Kim Jong Il ’s revolutionary leadership.

Such songs as “Dear Father” and “People Are with the Marshal” represented the highest respect of all the people for the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un .

Artistic performances were given by art groups of the Central Committee of the youth league, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection at the Central Youth Hall and by mobile artistic motivation teams of Mangyongdae District and Pyongyang Cosmetics Factory at the Central Hall of Workers.

Yearning and reverence for the peerlessly great men were overflowing in all parts of the country along with the People’s Art Festival.

The mobile artistic motivation team members of the Taeyu Copper Mine sang of the joy and excitement of celebrating February 16 as the greatest auspicious holiday in such numbers as chorus “Fortune of Korea”.

The members of the mobile artistic motivation teams of Kwail County, the Kwanhae Farm in Unnyul County and Sariwon City and art group members of the Ongjin Mine and the Ryangdam Farm of the South Hwanghae Provincial Rural Economic Committee showed well their happiness of leading a worthwhile life in their localities being transformed into lands good to work and live in under the leadership of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Mobile artistic motivation teams of the Joyang Farm under the South Hamgyong Provincial Rural Economic Committee and Kyongwon County and art groups of the Toksong Apple Farm and the township farm in Hwadae County demonstrated their revolutionary will to consolidate the foundations for national prosperity by dint of patriotism.

Mobile artistic motivation team members of Samjiyon City and art group members of the Taehongdan County Potato Processing Factory and the Mojong Vegetable Farm in Hyesan City sang of the devoted service for the people’s wellbeing rendered by Kim Jong Un who is ceaselessly leading the great historic cause of regional transformation to build on this land a large flower garden where the people-first principle is applied.

Among the audience were officials, working people, youth and students in relevant areas.

KCNA

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