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New Books Published
Pyongyang, March 30 (KCNA) -- The Science and Encyclopedia Publishing House of the DPRK has published new books to give the versatile knowledge to the working people.

Contained in the book "Beauty and Traits of Women" are the data on the women revolutionaries of the Mangyongdae family, women highly appreciated by President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il, famous women in the world and proverbs, words and common knowledge related with them.

The book "The History of Korean Calligraphy Development" formulates in a comprehensive and systematic way the history of the Juche calligraphy development and the history of the fine national calligraphy created by the Korean people in the ancient, medieval and modern times.

The book is making a contribution to further developing the Juche-oriented calligraphy by elucidating the superiority of the national calligraphy, its inherent characteristics and the law of its development and by properly carrying forward them.

The book "Korean History According to Periods" (Koguryo history Vols. 3, 4 and 5) deals with the well-arranged military system of Koguryo as a powerful nation and her castle-wall defence system, her economic development and diplomatic relations with neighboring countries in accordance with her independent foreign policy, struggles of her people against the aggressors in each period, the course of unifying the territory, her literature and art, science and technology and the like on the basis of historical materials.

Among the newly published books is "Korean Fauna".

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