Juche

    It is the work written by President Kim Il Sung in the revolutionary activities in his early years and the President personally guided its creation.

    With the end of the 1920s when the awakening of the popular masses was urgently needed as background of the time, the drama, through the life of peasants in a mountainous village of the northern part of Korea, explains the profound truth of life that the working people can carve out their destiny independently and creatively only when they have correct social consciousness by learning hard even in severe poverty.

    The revolutionary drama A Letter form a Daughter teaches that knowledge is power.

    He said that the revolutionary drama A Letter from a Daughter should keep its legitimate character and at the same time depict to make the people laugh in spite of themselves. The leader said that it is necessary to combine the legitimate depiction correctly with the humorous one that criticizes the outdated ideological viewpoint with laughter by channeling due efforts to depicting an night school teacher who cultivates class consciousness while teaching the people that they are illiterate whenever they suffer from humiliation and abnormal practices.

    It was a significant way of depiction to make the drama promote modal features as a legitimate one with laughter.

    The leader said that those on stage should act in detail in the first part of the drama so as not to give satirical impressions and exaggerate in accordance with its modal features and depictive requirement.

    Revolutionary drama A Letter from a Daughter was successfully created under his energetic leadership, and give its performance in presence of President Kim Il Sung on April 4, 1987.

    Through the creation of this drama, model of revolutionary drama with peculiar and new modalities where the legitimate one is combined with the satirical one was born.