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New Postage Stamps Issued
Pyongyang, April 2 (KCNA) -- The State Stamp Bureau of the DPRK has issued a new sheet and an individual stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the Pukchong Meeting.

President Kim Il Sung convened an enlarged meeting of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in April Juche 50 (1961) in Pukchong County, South Hamgyong Province. At the meeting, he called for launching a nationwide effort for building orchards throughout the country and developing fruit farming in an extensive way.

Seen in the sheet is a picture of the President conversing with farmers in an orchard.

The individual stamp contains a picture of appetizing apples.

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