DPRK Sets Period of Mourning for Fidel Castro 

Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- The DPRK decided to set a three-day mourning period from Nov. 28 to 30 and raise flags at half-mast at buildings of important institutions and fixed places to mourn over the death of Fidel Castro Ruz.

The Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK and the DPRK Cabinet issued a joint decision in this regard on Nov. 27.

DPRK Party and State Delegation Leaves for Cuba

Pyongyang, November 28 (KCNA) -- A DPRK party and state delegation led by Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and vice-chairman of the WPK Central Committee, left here for Havana Monday to express condolences over the death of Fidel Castro Ruz, supreme leader of the Cuban revolution.

The delegation includes Kim Yong Su, department director of the C.C., WPK, So Hong Chan, first vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, Ryu Myong Son, vice department director of the C.C., WPK, and Sin Hong Chol, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs.