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Korean title: 우리의 김정은동지
Japanese title: 我らの金正恩同志
Alternative title: Our comrade Kim Jong Un
Performed by the Moranbong Band

DPRK Will Actively Join in Int’l Efforts to Protect Global Environment
DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong, head of the DPRK delegation, made a speech at the high-ranking officials’ meeting of the UN Climate Change Conference held in Paris, France on December 7.
He said that the climate change is not an issue confined to a certain country, but an urgent task to be tackled by the international community as it is a crucial matter affecting the coming generations and the future of humankind.
He appreciated that measures to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts were reflected as one of the post-2015 SDGs adopted at the UN Summit in last September.
He also welcomed the Paris Agreement as a result of series of negotiations.
He stressed that the following should be attained in due process of achieving the goals of the agreement.
First, it is of great importance for all the countries to correctly understand the global character of the climate change issue and pay primary attention to ensuring international unity in the efforts to addressing this issue.
Second, it is necessary to foster international and regional cooperation in climate change mitigation, in particular, focusing on the provision of financial and technical assistance for the developing countries at an earliest date possible.
Third, any egoistic and unfair preconditions should not be brought up while providing assistance through funds such as the Green Climate Fund and it is important to reject the politicization and comply with the principle of fairness in the implementation of international mechanisms such as the CDM.
The DPRK government will continue to faithfully discharge its responsibilities as a party to the UNFCCC and actively engage itself in the international efforts to protect the global environment, he concluded.
(KCNA, December 2015)

Favourite Band of Korean People
The Moranbong Band is now a great favourite of the Korean people. The smart group was organized in 2012 at the initiative of the DPRK national leader Kim Jong Un. He gave a name to it himself and saw to it that all the musical elements—from theme and formation to arrangement, composition of instruments, performing techniques and skills and representation—were boldly innovated far away from the conventional ones.
Since it gripped the heart of the people in its debut the band has given great encouragement to the Korean people in the effort to build a thriving nation through fresh and go-ahead performance activities. It has successfully staged many celebration performances, frontline performances, travelling performances, a concert of new music pieces and joint performances with the State Merited Chorus, excellently singing the Koreans’ favourite songs as well as world-famous songs.
Its history is short, but it enjoys love of all the Korean people, and each song presented by the band has become a companion of the people for a rich recreational life.
The audience were unsparing of their praises, giving a comment that it is an “excellent band, a completely new and fresh troupe that displays a noble spiritual world through clear voice, beautiful appearance and graceful movements.”
It is a high pride of the Korean people to have such treasure entertainers. (Naenara)