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New Postage Stamps Issued in DPRK
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- New kinds of stamps (a sheet and a sheetlet) have been issued in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Printed in the sheet is a picture of the dear respected Kim Jong Un making his New Year address for 2013, against the background of fireworks display.

The sheetlet is made up of four individual stamps featuring the tasks set forth in the New Year address, on the theme of "Let us bring about a radical turn in the building of an economic giant with the same spirit and mettle as were displayed in conquering space!", the slogan laid down in the New Year address.

One stamp, with serviceperson, worker, peasant and student arm in arm pictured with letters reading "The great Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism", shows the fixed will of the Korean army and people to increase the political and military might of the country in every way, rallied closer around the Workers' Party of Korea, this year marking the 65th DPRK birthday and the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War.

Another stamp on the subject of "Agriculture and light industry constitute the main front in this year's economic construction" stresses the idea that a production upsurge should be effected in coal, power and metal industries and railway transport, the four major leading sectors of the national economy, and a springboard for building an economic power should be laid by dint of science and technology.

The two other stamps carry the ideas that building a highly civilized country should be sped up to open up a fresh age of civilization in the 21st century and Korea's reunification be realized on the basis of priority to the nation's interests and the stand for national unity through removal of confrontation between the north and the south and implementation of the north-south joint declarations.

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