2024.4.1.

Talks were held in Vientiane on March 29 between Kim Song Nam, alternate member of the Political Bureau and director of the International Department of the C.C., Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) who is on a visit to Laos as head of a WPK delegation, and Thongsavanh Phomvihane, chairman of the Committee for External Affairs of the C.C., Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP).

Kim Song Nam briefed on the fact that a heyday of strengthening the whole Party, a new era of comprehensive development of socialism, is being ushered in under the wise guidance of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un, and stressed the validity of the WPK’s policy of bolstering up the military capability for self-defence and line of struggle against the enemy.

Expressing belief that the Korean people would achieve rapid progress in the struggle to boost the economy, improve the people’s living standards and bolster up the defence capability under the guidance of the WPK headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Un, Thongsavanh Phomvihane declared that the LPRP and the Lao government fully support the policy of the WPK and the DPRK government for defending peace and security on the Korean peninsula.

The talks discussed the issues for steadily consolidating and developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties and the two countries in keeping with the requirements of the new era and the common desire of the two peoples and for ramping up the mutual support and solidarity in the international arena.

Present there, from the DPRK side, were members of the WPK delegation and the DPRK ambassador to Laos and, from the Lao side, a vice-chairperson and other officials of the Committee for External Affairs of the LPRP Central Committee.

That evening the WPK delegation was invited to a reception hosted by Thongsavanh Phomvihane.

Rodong Sinmun