We Started from Scratch [Subtitles]

Korean title: 우리는 빈터에서 시작하였네 A Song of Unforgettable Memory   The song "We Started from Scratch" was created in Juche 69(1980). It was written by Kim Tu Il and composed by Ri Pong Ryong. The lyric song gives an impressive musical picture of the merits of the Korean people who built the country from scratch into a people´s paradise under the wise guidance of the great leader Kim Il Sung.    The great leader Kim Il Sung led the anti-Japanese revolutionary struggle to victory and liberated Korea. After liberation he personally broke the ground for nation building, kindling the flames of building a new country.    Especially in the early 1950s he victoriously led the Fatherland Liberation War against the invasion of the US-led imperialist allied forces and aroused the entire people to the postwar reconstruction. In those days he met workers and called for showing the mettle of the Koreans in the postwar reconstruction as well, showing deep trust in them. In hearty response to his call, the Korean workers wrought surprising miracles with bare hands on the debris without a brick unbroken.    The song describes with vivid and impressive poetic words the proud struggle of the Korean people who built a rich and powerful independent sovereign state. It also represents the firm will of the Korean people to shape a brighter future as they advanced independently and creatively under the leadership of the Party and the leader.    Ri Tong Uk, researcher of the National Music Institute of the Kim Won Gyun University of Music, says:    "The melody consists of two parts. The melody of broad calibre forming a fluent process of sound in broad range with soft yet optimistic rhythm is run through with a meditative and lyric mood. The song is a significant famous song warmly representing the heroic feats performed by the Korean people in the most difficult days of postwar reconstruction, believing only in the great leader Kim Il Sung."    The song "We Started from Scratch" is a song of unforgettable memory giving strength and courage to the Korean people building a prosperous socialist nation under the leadership of respected Kim Jong Un. (Voice of Korea 2016) Download mp3: http://dprkmusic.dip.jp/u10.mp3