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DPRK Officials Pay Condolatory Visit to Vietnamese Embassy Here

Politics 2024.7.27.


Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK, the Cabinet of the DPRK, armed forces organs and ministries visited the Vietnamese embassy here on Thursday to express condolences over the death of Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Among them were Kang Yun Sok, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the DPRK SPA, Jong Myong Su, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Won Kyong Ho, vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, Army Lieutenant General Kim Min Sop, vice-minister of National Defence, Pak Sang Gil, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim In Chol, vice-minister of Public Security, and Ri Thae Myong, vice-chairman of the Pyongyang Municipal People’s Committee.

Laid before the photo of Nguyen Phu Trong was a wreath in the joint name of the WPK Central Committee, the Standing Committee of the SPA of the DPRK and the Cabinet of the DPRK.

Also placed were wreaths in the names of the Ministry of National Defence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security and the Pyongyang Municipal People’s Committee.

Written on ribbons of the wreaths were letters reading "In memory of Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong".

The visitors observed a moment’s silence in memory of Nguyen Phu Trong who made a contribution to the development of the Vietnamese party and state and the friendly relations between the DPRK and Vietnam.

They made entries in a condolence book.

Rodong Sinmun