calendar>>June 17. 2014 Juche 103
New Stamps Issued
Pyongyang, June 17 (KCNA) -- The State Stamp Bureau of the DPRK issued new stamps (a sheet and sheetlet) in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's start of work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (June 19, 1964).

Seen in the upper part of the stamps are letters "Commemoration of the 50th anniversary of leader Kim Jong Il's Start of Work at the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK)" and "Juche 53 (1964)-Juche 103 (2014)".

The sheet carries an acrylic painting "Dawn breaks in the history of the WPK", which depicts Kim Jong Il starting his work at the C.C., the WPK.

The sheetlet carries Korean paintings showing lofty moral traits of Kim Jong Il who had always found himself among the servicepersons and people of the DPRK to encourage them to make fresh innovations.

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