calendar>>April 11. 2011 Juch 100
Doctorate Conferred on Overseas Koreans
Pyongyang, April 11 (KCNA) -- Doctorate in medicine of the DPRK was conferred on Yun Sang Hyok, a Korean doctor in the U.S., and doctorate in history on Kim Song Jun, a Korean teacher in China.

Yun contributed to the development of external medicine through research into the remedy for spine while Kim to systematizing in a scientific and theoretical way the law that governs the development of the traditional music of Korea.

A ceremony of awarding academic degrees took place at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Monday.

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