Politics

At the invitation of Sergei Lavrov, foreign minister of the Russian Federation, Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and her party left Pyongyang by her personal plane on July 18 to visit the Russian Federation.

They were seen off at Pyongyang International Airport by Kim Jong Gyu, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, and Vladimir Topekha, charge d’affaires ad interim of the Russian embassy in Pyongyang.