Pyongyang, October 18 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea headed by Ri Chol, director of the Academy of Medical Science of the Ministry of Public Health who is chairman of the DPRK-Russia Friendship Parliamentary Group, left here on October 17 to visit Russia.

It was seen off at Pyongyang International Airport by Kim Song Il, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the youth league who is vice-chairman of the DPRK-Russia Friendship Parliamentary Group, and Aleksandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK. -0-