The collection of poems by poet Oleg Naumov and the book by Gennadi Astakhov, editor-in-chief of the website "Banner of Mt Paektu" were released with due ceremony in Moscow on Nov. 21.

Present at the book-releasing ceremony were personages of the Forum Book Publishing House of Russia, the Russian Association for Friendship and Cultural Cooperation with the DPRK and other bodies and writers and poets and the charge d'affaires ad interim and staff members of the DPRK embassy in Moscow.

Speeches were made at the ceremony.

Vladimir Sychev, director of the Forum Book Publishing House of Russia, said that the DPRK has tremendous muscle to defend its sovereignty and that the publishing house will make a tangible contribution to introducing to the Russian people the achievements made by the friendly Korean people under the guidance of Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.

A Russian writer noted that the DPRK has been on a winning streak demonstrating its dignity and might in the international arena. The credit for it is that the DPRK has been guided by such genuine people's leaders as President Kim Il Sung, Chairman Kim Jong Il and Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, the writer stressed.