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New Stamps Issued in DPRK

Pyongyang, November 26 (KCNA) -- The State Stamp Bureau of the DPRK has recently issued stamps (four sheetlets) showing some of the historical sites and remains in Kaesong City, registered as world's cultural heritages according to a decision of the 37th meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in June.

Those relics are Taesong Hall at the Koryo Songgyungwan Academy, the highest educational institution in the period of Koryo Kingdom (918-1392), Nam Gate in Kaesong built in 1391-1393, Mausoleum of Kongmin, the 31st king of Koryo, and his wife and Sonjuk Bridge.

Kaesong was the capital city of Koryo, the first unified state in Korea. Preserved there are 90-odd historical sites and remains.

Meanwhile, the bureau brought out three kinds of individual stamps dealing with fossils discovered in the country, including the Tuman River fossil fish.