calendar>>January 1. 2016 Juche 105 |
New Stamps Issued
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Pyongyang, January 1 (KCNA) -- The DPRK State Stamp Bureau issued new stamps on the occasion of the New Year, Juche 105 (2016). Seen on its upper part of the individual one are letters "Happy New Year". It features joyful children making a snowman, spinning a top and flying a kite with the splendidly-built Pyongyang Baby Home and Orphanage for a background. The Bureau also brought out the stamp dealing with a clock, which indicates the standard time of the DPRK. The DPRK decided to fix the time at 127 degrees 30 minutes east longitude as its standard on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule (August 15), calling Pyongyang time. |
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