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Wed, August 10, 2022 | 23:01
North Korean leader wants improved economic ties with Vietnam: KCNA
Posted : 2019-03-02 10:16
Updated : 2019-03-02 16:55
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                                                                                                 North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, left, and Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc shake hands at the Government Office in Hanoi on March 1, 2019. AFP
North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un, left, and Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc shake hands at the Government Office in Hanoi on March 1, 2019. AFP

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has expressed hope for stepped-up cooperation and exchanges with Vietnam in all areas, and for improving bilateral relations to a new level, Pyongyang's official news agency said Saturday.

The Korean Central News Agency reported on Kim's official visit to Hanoi this week that started right after his fruitless nuclear summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.

"Through active party-to-party and country-to-country contacts, we should normalize cooperation and exchanges in all areas ranging from the economy, science and technology, defense, sports, culture, arts and publication and news media and upgrade the relations to a new level," Kim was quoted as saying.

"It is the unwavering position of our country and our party to inherit through generations the friendly cooperative relations between the two countries and the two parties based on blood," Kim added.

Kim Jong-un wraps up Vietnam visit, chugging back home empty-handed
Kim Jong-un wraps up Vietnam visit, chugging back home empty-handed
2019-03-02 17:35  |  North Korea
NK leader pushes ahead with Vietnam official visit
NK leader pushes ahead with Vietnam official visit
2019-03-01 17:16  |  North Korea

On Thursday, Kim met with Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong at the Presidential Palace of Vietnam in downtown Hanoi. He also held talks later with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Vietnamese National Assembly Speaker Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan.

Kim is the first North Korean leader in 55 years to visit Vietnam. His late grandfather, Kim Il-sung, who founded the North, traveled to the country in 1958 and 1964.

His meetings with top Vietnamese officials came after Kim and Trump failed to produce a breakthrough during their high-stakes two-day summit Feb. 27 and 28 in Hanoi.

Trump later said North Korea demanded the lifting of sanctions "in their entirety" which he could not accept. The North Koreans rebutted that, saying that Washington wanted more than the dismantlement of its key Yongbyon nuclear complex, while it had asked for partial sanctions relief. (Yonhap)

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