(4 Jul 2011) SHOTLIST
1. Wide pan right of Kim Il Sung Square with large crowd of people and soldiers
2. Mid of senior North Korean officials and Korean People's Army Generals standing on platform
3. Wide of Korean People's Army soldiers; placard above them with slogan reading (Korean) "Long live the revolutionary ideas of the great leader Kim Il Sung"
4. Mid of people standing in square
5. Wide of people standing below large poster reading (Korean) "The Songun ('Military First') politics of our party is an omnipotent treasured sword."
6. SOUNDBITE (Korean) Mun Gyong Dok, Chief Party Secretary of the Pyongyang City Party Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea:
"The confrontation fanatics will clearly know how merciless the stern rifle of our army and people is."
7. Wide of people shouting slogan, zoom out
8. Mid of Korean People's Army soldiers
9. Wide of large poster reading (Korean) "Those who provoke us will never escape from death"
10. Mid of people standing in square
11. Wide of large poster reading (Korean) "Long live the great victory of Songun politics"
12. Various of soldiers and people shouting slogan and raising fist
STORYLINE
Over 100-thousand people crowded Pyongyang's central Kim Il Sung Square on Monday to protest against South Korean leader Lee Myung Bak, as senior government and military officials looked on.
APTN North Korea filmed the crowd listening to a senior Pyongyang city official reading out a statement from the Supreme Command of North Korea' Korean People's Army (KPA).
Amidst the ranks of people and soldiers, signs with slogans praised North Korea's founding leader Kim Il Sung, and the country's dominant official ideology, called "Songun", which means "military first" - stressing its priority in all areas of national and public life.
The event followed a statement last week from the Supreme Command of the Korean People's army hitting out at South Korean forces for allegedly displaying anti-North Korean slogans and placards.
The North Korean statement, dated 29th June, claimed that the anti-north displays were the "state policy" of Lee's administration, and it went on to threaten "merciless retaliatory blows" against his leadership.
North Korea has held mass rallies of this kind several times in the past few years, most routinely in the first week of January, to express support for new state policies for the coming year, and also after significant events like its two nuclear tests.

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