Present there on invitation were Ambassador Choe Jin Su and staff members of the DPRK embassy.

Hu Zhengyue, assistant to the foreign minister, and other officials of the ministry were on hand.

The attendants recalled that last year the relations between the two countries in the field of diplomacy became closer and exchange and cooperation brisk in different fields through successful events for "year of friendship" on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral diplomatic ties.

And they talked to each other about the matter of further developing the bilateral relations as intended by the supreme leaders of the two countries in the new year, too.