[KS] Help with North Korean song identification

[Joy Kim]

I received the following reply when I forwarded your inquiry to a friend.  I hope you can read Korean.  If not, let me know.  

"원하시던 노래 제목 등이 아래처럼 답신되어 왔습니다.
답신은 뉴욕에 사시는 재미동포 음악지휘자로 북 음악에 대한 
연구와 연주 지휘 등으로 여러 번 북에 다녀오신 분입니다.
이 거면 다 되는 것으로 알고 있는데 질문 있으면 알려 주십시오.

<그 노래는 <김일성원수께 드리는 노래>입니다. 곡의 끝에 나오는 후렴이
Youtube에 나오고 있었습니다.
 작사는 원종소이고 박한규가 작곡하였습니다. 두분에 대하여서는 아직 아느것이
없습니다.
 창작년도는 주체45(1954년) 입니다.>"

Joy Kim
Curator, Korean Heritage Library
East Asian Library
University of Southern California
University Park
Los Angeles, CA90089-1825
Tel:  213-740-2329 or 213-740-2535
Fax: 213-740-7437
http://www.usc.edu/korea
http://libguides.usc.edu/korea

President
Council on East Asian Libraries
http://www.eastasianlib.org

----- Original Message -----
From: "CedarBough T. Saeji " <umyang at gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:53 pm
Subject: [KS] Help with North Korean song identification
To: Korean Studies Discussion List <koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>

> Perhaps someone can have more luck than I'm having with this one, 
> sincesome of you do research on North Korea.
> 
> The film project One Day on Earth (filmed 10/10/10 and again 
> 11/11/11 in
> almost every nation on earth) is based here in Los Angeles and I've
> translated some of their clips, today they asked me to help with a 
> NorthKorean clip from the 65th Anniversary of the Workers' Party. 
> The clip
> starts with footage of Kim Jong-il and Jong-un listening to 
> speeches and
> then transitions into a single dance/song number. The quality of 
> the clip
> is pretty bad, but they want the song identified. After Youtube 
> research I
> found the same song/dance in context on this clip
> http://youtu.be/MMhn4C0LKK8 (starting at about minute 9:50). 
> Although other
> clips in this series identify the title of a medley performance 
> (this being
> one part of such a medley), since the One Day on Earth viewer will 
> only see
> this single clip, they only want the name of this song. I tried 
> searchingthe identifiable phrases in the song and the famous DPRK 
> songs I could
> think of, but couldn't find a clear match, even with headphones on 
> and the
> volume maxed out it's just not a very clear recording.
> 
> I've devoted a bit too much time to this already, hoping one of you 
> willfind this interesting/easy.
> 
> Have a great day,
> 
> CedarBough
> 
> -- 
> Ph.D. Candidate in UCLA's program in Culture and Performance
>