North Korean chief Kim Jong-un, left, and Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong increase their palms throughout a state banquet in Hanoi, on this March 1, 2019 picture. EPA-Yonhap
The leaders of North Korea and Vietnam have exchanged messages of greetings to have fun the seventy fifth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic ties between the 2 leaders whereas declaring 2025 as a yr of friendship, Pyongyang’s state media reported Friday.
North Korean chief Kim Jong-un despatched his heat celebrations in a message to Vietnamese President Luong Cuong on the event of the anniversary of the diplomatic relationship that was solid on Jan. 31, 1950, in accordance with the Korean Central Information Company (KCNA).
Declaring this yr as a yr of friendship, Kim voiced hope that the bilateral relations will „steadily develop.“
„This conforms to the frequent aspiration and want of the peoples of the 2 nations to develop the pleasant and cooperative relations which had been solid and consolidated within the joint battle for socialism onto a brand new, increased stage,“ the North’s chief mentioned.
In a message to Kim reported by the KCNA, the Vietnamese chief mentioned their conventional relations had been „cultivated by the leaders of a number of generations of the 2 nations with a lot effort,“ together with former Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh and the North’s state founder Kim Il-sung.
Cuong mentioned each side will have fun a yr of friendship „collectively and efficiently by vital exchanges and cooperative actions.“
After forging diplomatic relations in 1950, North Korea and Vietnam maintained shut communist ties for over a long time. However their relationship turned frosty due largely to Vietnam’s institution of diplomatic ties with South Korea in 1992.
The bilateral relations started enhancing within the 2000s and had been totally normalized on the event of North Korean chief Kim Jong-un’s journey to Hanoi in February 2019 for his summit with then U.S. President Donald Trump. (Yonhap)
