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DPRK Government Decides to Mourn Death of Yasser Arafat

Date: 12/11/2004 | Source: KCNA.co.jp (En) | Read original version at source

Pyongyang, November 11 (KCNA)- In connection with the death of Yasser Arafat, president of the State of Palestine, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and head of the Palestine National Authority, due to illness on November 11 the Government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea decided to set the period from Nov.15 to 17 as a mourning period and fly flags at half mast at some institutions in this period.
A close friend of the Korean people, President Yasser Arafat visited the DPRK six times from October 1981 to June 1993. He was awarded the title of Hero of the DPRK during his first Korean visit.
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