Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, paid an official goodwill visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on March 1-2 in 2019.
During his visit, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un had talks with Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and attended a welcoming banquet. He also met the leading officials of Vietnam and laid wreaths before the Mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh and the Monument to Heroic Martyrs.
At the talks, Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong exchanged in-depth views over the issues of mutual concern including the one of expanding and developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two Parties and two countries in various fields as required by the new era. The talks proceeded in a comradely, candid and friendly atmosphere.
Comrade Kim Jong Un delivered a speech at the banquet. He said that it is quite natural and right for him to visit Vietnam, a country associated with the noble hearts of the leaders of the two countries and the common soul of the martyrs of the two countries who made the history of the DPRK-Vietnam friendship with their lives. He affirmed the will to further consolidate and develop the bilateral friendly and cooperative ties as required by the new era and make joint efforts in the sacred struggle to bring happiness and future to the peoples of the two countries.
Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong said that his visit, the first of its kind in 55 years after the visit to Vietnam by President Kim Il Sung in 1964, is an expression of the stand of the Korean Party and government valuing the traditional friendly relations with Vietnam.
Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Mausoleum of President Ho Chi Minh and Monument to Heroic Martyrs, unfolding an immortal picture which touchingly showed how the noble sense of moral obligation and feelings between the revolutionaries of the two countries created and strengthened in the common struggle for accomplishing the cause of socialism are being carried on successfully beyond century and through generations.
Welcoming his historic visit to Vietnam, a great number of Vietnamese people of all strata spread a beautiful sea of flowers to cordially receive him and send him off along the hundreds-of-mile-long route between Hanoi and Dong Dang Railway Station, a border station.
The historic official goodwill visit to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by Comrade Kim Jong Un served as a historic milestone that remarkably strengthened unity and solidarity between the socialist countries by further developing the DPRK-Vietnam friendly and cooperative relations, which were forged and tested in the common struggle for achieving the socialist cause, into unique comradely and strategic ones.
This year the peoples of the two countries will significantly celebrate the 65th anniversary of the official goodwill visit of President Kim Il Sung to Vietnam.
The friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and Vietnam were formed and tended by President Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people, and Comrade Ho Chi Minh, the respected leader of the Vietnamese people. These relations were strengthened and developed by Chairman Kim Jong Il and Vietnamese leaders of several generations. It is the noble will of Comrade Kim Jong Un and the firm stand of the government and people of the DPRK to comprehensively develop these relations onto a higher stage in conformity with the spirit of the agreement reached at the historic DPRK-Vietnam Hanoi summit in March 2019.
Our people sincerely hope that the Vietnamese people will achieve bigger successes in the struggle for implementing the decisions made at the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, firmly united behind the Communist Party of Vietnam led by Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong.
The future of the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and Vietnam, which are rooted in the comradely friendship and revolutionary obligation between the preceding leaders of the two countries and have met the greatest heyday of development under the deep care of the top leaders of the two Parties and two countries, will be ever brighter.
Pak Jong Hak, president of the Korea-Vietnam Association
