HCM City Party Secretary welcomes DPRK guest, wishing to strengthen cooperation: Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen and Director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) Kim Song Nam. (Photo: VNA)

Party Secretary Nen emphasised that the city’s Party Committee, administration, and people always value the traditional friendship and cooperative relations between the two Parties, Governments, and peoples of Vietnam and DPRK.

Together with other localities in Vietnam, the city has been implementing the cooperation directions agreed upon by Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and Chairman of the WPK, Chairman of the DPRK’s State Affairs Commission Kim Jong-un during the latter's visit to Vietnam in 2019.

Briefing his guest on Ho Chi Minh City’s socio-economic situation, Nen said the city plans to send a delegation on a working visit to the DPRK in June.

HCM City Party Secretary welcomes DPRK guest, wishing to strengthen cooperation: Overview of the meeting. (Photo: VNA)

For his part, the Korean Party official expressed his impression of the city’s development achievements.

He also wished the two sides strengthen the implementation of the cooperation directions agreed upon by leaders of the two countries as well as boost cooperative relations between the two Parties and two States.

He thanked the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee for choosing DPRK’s localities to expand cooperation in the coming years, wishing that the localities will develop close relations that help strengthen the relations between the two countries.