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"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 that country.
The first two bars of the song are used as an interval signal on North Korean radio and television. According to North Korean sources, their satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2, supposedly launched in a test on 5 April 2009, is broadcasting this song among other data.[1]
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| 장백산 줄기줄기 피어린 자욱 압록강 굽이굽이 피어린 자욱
만주벌 눈바람아 이야기하라
로동자 대중에겐 해방의 은인
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Changbaeksan chulgijulgi p'iŏrin chauk Amnokkang kubigubi p'iŏrin chauk
Manjubŏl nunbarama iyagihara
rodongja taejungegen haebangŭi ŭnin
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Baekdu Mountains roll, stained with blood Long Yalu River meanders, soaked in blood
Vast snowy fields of Manchuria please tell me
Liberator of the working people, our savior dear
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Bright traces of blood on the crags of Jangbaek still gleam, Still the Amnok carries along signs of blood in its stream.
Tell, blizzards that rage in the wild Manchurian plains,
He severed the chains of the masses, brought them liberty,
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