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First Triplets Born in New Year
Pyongyang, January 17 (KCNA) -- First triplets were born at the Pyongyang Maternity Hospital in the new year.

Their mother is a wife of an officer of the Korean People's Army.

They are baby girls, who weighed respectively 2.130, 1.920 and 1.510 kilos at birth.

The groups of triplets and quadruplets who have been born at the hospital since its opening total 383.

The newly born triplets are enjoying all benefits of the socialist health system.

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