Politics

Mukesh Sharma, secretary general of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council, and Alexandr Prokhanov and Dewi Soekarno, directors of the councils, and their parties left Pyongyang after taking part in the Eleventh Meeting of the International Kim Il Sung Prize Council and the Second Meeting of the International Kim Jong Il Prize Council held on the occasion of the 80th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea.

They were seen off respectively at Pyongyang International Airport by Kim Un Je, vice-chairman of the Korean Association of Social Scientists.