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Also, the Chorus made music videos shown daily on Korean Central Television of many of its best compositions, with the rise of pro-DPRK channels on social media sites like YouTube in the mid-2000s, the videos of their songs exposed the men of the ensemble and its symphonic orchestra to online viewers outside the country (except in South Korea ...
The music of North Korea includes a wide array of folk, popular, light instrumental, political, and classical performers. Beyond patriotic and political music, popular music groups like Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble and Moranbong Band perform songs about everyday life in the DPRK and modern light pop reinterpretations of classic Korean folk music.
Slovenian avant-garde music group Laibach released an English-language cover version of the song. [7] The band intended to play their version for a live audience in North Korea as part of their Liberation Day tour there, [4] [7] but North Korean officials censored them for having altered the song. [8] Ivo Saliger of the group told Rolling Stone:
The Song of the Korean People's Army is a patriotic song of the Korean People's Army, the army of North Korea's ruling Workers' Party of Korea composed by Ri Beon-su and Ra Guk. [1] It was adopted in 1968 as the official anthem of the KPA. [2]
"Aegukka" (Chosŏn'gŭl: 애국가), officially translated as "Patriotic Song", [2] is the national anthem of North Korea. It was composed in 1945 as a patriotic song celebrating independence from Japanese occupation and was adopted as the state anthem in 1947.
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"No Motherland Without You" (or "Ode to Kim Jong Il") is a North Korean song about the country's second supreme leader, Kim Jong Il. Composed by Hwang Jin Young and written by Ri Jong O [], it extols the proclaimed talent and virtues of Kim, and the North Korean people's loyalty to him.
The "Song of General Kim Il Sung" is a North Korean marching song composed by Kim Won-gyun in 1946. As a part of an ongoing cult of personality, the song praising Kim Il Sung, North Korea's "Eternal President", who died in 1994, is still widely played in the country. It is often considered to be the de facto national anthem in North Korea.