The two dignitaries presented flower baskets to the general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Committee, Kim Jong Un, the state news agency KCNA reported in the capital.
In August 1948 the DPRK elected the Supreme People’s Assembly and on September 3 a new Constitution was promulgated.
Six days later the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was proclaimed with Kim Il Sung as prime minister.
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