North Korea gives Castro special tribute
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NORTH Korea is observing a three-day period of mourning for Fidel Castro, seen by North Korea as a rare comrade-in-arms against the common enemy of the United States.
North Korea has ordered flags outside official buildings be flown at half-mast to honor Castro.
Reports from Pyongyang said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had sent a wreath to the Cuban Embassy and that a delegation of senior North Korean officials had left for Havana to attend Castro’s memorial services.
According to a Japanese agency that monitors North Korean media, Castro is the first foreign political figure to be honored in such a manner since Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004.
Besides flying flags at half-mast, it was not clear what the mourning period, which ends tomorrow, would entail.
Soon after receiving news of Castro’s death, Kim Yong Nam, head of North Korea’s parliament, and Premier Pak Pong Ju sent a message of condolence to Castro’s brother Raul, who assumed power after Fidel became too weak to continue as leader.
In it, they said that although Fidel Castro had died, “the feats he performed for the Cuban revolution and the fraternal relations of friendship between the two countries would remain forever.”
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