The Workers’ Party of Korea 7th Congress celebration performance (조선로동당 제7차대회경축 공연)

Moranbong Band, Chongbong Band & State Merited Chorus 모란봉악단, 청봉악단, 공훈국가합창단 합동공연 Recorded: Mokran Video, DPRK The 7th Party congress in 2016 was a major event in the history of the DPRK and to celebrate it a major concert also took place. The content basically describes the 20th century history of Korea going all back to the beginning of the century. A report by a rather arrogant BBC reporter from the event where he actually got a glimps of the Moranbong singers backstage: Fortunately Hyon Song-wol was there to protect them... Video quality is not very good, partly because of mpeg2 compression artefacts. The original file had to be within the 4 GB limit of FAT32 and is therefore heavily compressed. In this video I tried to remove some more of the artefacts without loosing too much detail. I hope i looks better compared to the individual clips linked to below. 0:00 Intro 0:16 The National Anthem (애국가) Music: Kim Won-gyun (김원균) 1947 1:52 The green pine on Nam Hill (남산의 푸른 소나무) Text: Kim Hyong-jik (김형직) 1918 Kim Hyong-jik was the father of Kim Il-sung and wrote this poem at the time of His departure to go out in the liberation war. At the end his motto written with Chinese letters: 志遠 = Aim High! 7:34 Long live the great Korean Worker’s Party (조선로동당 만세) 26:09 Loving (사랑하노라) Text: Ri Hye-jong (리혜정) 2014 Music: Sol The-song (설태성) Moranbong Band version: 30:53 Let’s defend socialism (사회주의 지키세) 34:24 Mother’s voice (어머니의 목소리) 39:13 Let’s subordinate ourselves under the Party flag (당의 기치따라) Music: Han Si-hyong (한시형) 1980 Text: Collective Chollima runs (천리마 달린다) Music: Kim Gil-hak (김길학) 1960 Text: Nam Ung-son (남응손) 44:32 Mother Party (어머니당이여) 49:42 I sing in praise of the Party (당을 노래하노라) 55:08 One great family (하나의 대가정) 58:47 Let us go with high spirits (신심드높이 가리라) 1:02:26 Fly high our Party flag! (높이 날려라 우리의 당기) Music: Kim Dong-chol (김동철) 1985 1:10:57 We have nothing to envy in this world (세상에 부럼없어라) 1:18:04 Glory to the Worker’s Party of Korea (영광드립니다 조선로동당이여) 1:21:49 Partisan songs medley (빨찌산 노래 련곡) Individual song titles in the English subtitles 1:37:05 We love the Party flag (우리는 당기를 사랑하네) 1:41:35 Rich Harvest Comes to the Chongsan Plain (청산벌에 풍년이 왔네) 1:45:44 People’s wish (인민의 축원) 1:50:59 The Mother Party protects my destiny (내 운명 지켜준 어머니당이여) Individual song titles in the English subtitles 2:03:59 We love (우린 사랑한다) 2:14:00 Our faith (우리의 신념) Music: Pak Myong-song (박명성) 2016 Text: Ri Hye-jong (리혜정) 2:17:52 We will forever follow this only way (영원히 한길을 가리라)