Politics

Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly, met Le Hoai Trung, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and foreign minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, on a visit to the DPRK as the special envoy of the general secretary of the CPV Central Committee who is president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, at the Pyongyang Assembly Hall on May 15.

Jo Yong Won had a talk with Le Hoai Trung in a friendly atmosphere.

Present there were Pak Sang Gil, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, officials concerned, the special envoy's party and Le Ba Vinh, Vietnamese ambassador to the DPRK.