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Origin of Koreans
Pyongyang, March 22 (KCNA) -- Korea is well known to the world as one of the cradles of human civilization. The Korean nation originated from the Korean peninsula with Pyongyang as its center. This was scientifically explained and proved by historians. But Japanese government-patronized historians distorted the history by describing the Korean nation as a tribe of mixed blood made up of emigrants from Siberia or southeast Asia. So, it was necessary to explicitly clarify the origin of the Korean nation from the Juche-oriented stand.

Historians energetically carried out the excavation of primitive relics in order to prove their view that the human beings emerged on the Korean peninsula, too, given that fossil animals belonging to the 4th age were discovered there. As a result, the relics left by primitives, the first ancestors of human beings, believed to belong to the pre-old stone age were discovered in Komun Moru ruins in Sangwon county, Pyongyang. And many fossils of palaeolithic men and Neolithic men were unearthed in Ryokpho and Sungho districts, Pyongyang, and in Tokchon city, South Phyongan Province. Those fossils were named "Ryokpho man," "Mandal man" and "Sungrisan man."

It was thus proved that primitives originated from Korea one million years ago and old type Koreans evolved from their descendants palaeolithic and Neolithic men. In this course the Korean peninsula with Pyongyang as its center came to be known as one of the cradles of human civilization and the Korean nation was proved to be a homogeneous nation. And this led to a scientific clarification of the origin of the Korean nation and the systematization of the history of the primitive society in Korea on the basis of Juche.

Many archaeological relics have already been discovered in Korea to prove the origin of the nation. Typical of them are arrowheads invented and used by men in the middle stone age and pre-Neolithic relics left by men in Sophohang (Kulpho-ri Sonbong county, North Hamgyong Province), and Kungsan (Unha-ri, Onchon county, South Phyongan Province) and other relics before and after the Neolithic age.

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