Pyongyang, November 17 (KCNA) -- Several delegations of the DPRK left here on Thursday to visit different countries.

They included a Korean youth friendly delegation led by Ri Yong Chol, first secretary of the C.C., the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, to visit China, a delegation of the DPRK Red Cross Society led by Paek Yong Ho, vice-chairman of its Central Committee, to attend the 18th General Meeting of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the 31st International Red Cross Meeting in Geneva of Switzerland and a delegation of the State Maritime Supervisory Bureau led by Vice-Director Jon Ki Chol to attend the 27th Assembly of the International Maritime Organization in Britain.

Meanwhile the delegation of publishers by Han Chol Ho, vice-director of the Publication Guidance Bureau, came back home after visiting China.