''Tell O' The Forest
was criticized by Kim Jong-il in On the Art of Opera'' for having the hero die before witnessing the moment of victory, as well as sticking to the "outmoded pattern" of using exclusively song, not a mixture of song and speech. The 2019
Laibach song "Honourable, Dead or Alive, When Following the Revolutionary Road" is a re-interpretation of an
aria from ''Tell O' The Forest!'' It was "prepared for the 2015
Liberation Day concert in
Ponghwa Theatre in
Pyongyang, but deemed too 'confusing' by the North Korean hosts and struck from the concert repertoire." ==See also==