calendar>>December 31. 2009 Juche 98
Memorial Stamps Issued in DPRK
Pyongyang, December 31 (KCNA) -- The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has brought out new stamps (a souvenir sheet and a sheetlet) in remembrance of Juche 98 (2009) when the Korean people's dreams have come true.

The souvenir sheet contains a Korean painting of General Secretary Kim Jong Il visiting the Chollima Steel Complex in December last year to kindle a torchlight of a new great revolutionary upsurge.

Seen in the sheetlet are individual stamps showing the successful launch of artificial satellite "Kwangmyongsong-2" by the Korean people themselves, completion of a Juche-oriented steel production system at the Songjin Steel Complex, CNC technology fully grasped by Korean technicians and other conspicuous achievements made in the efforts for building a great, prosperous and powerful nation.

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