calendar>>August 17. 2017 Juche 106
New Stamps Issued in DPRK
Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- The State Stamp Bureau of the DPRK issued new stamps (five sheets) introducing the Natural History Museum.

The stamps show the exterior of the museum and the Universe Hall, Paleontology Hall, Animal Hall and the Botanical Hall in its interior.

The museum was opened in July Juche 105 (2016) as the peculiar scientific knowledge dissemination complex which gives people comprehensive knowledge of the history of the earth, the origin of life and organisms including animals and plants.

Meanwhile, four kinds of individual stamps were also published to picture magnolia, goshawk, Phungsan dog and pine tree which are the national flower, bird, dog and tree of Korea.

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