Pyongyang, September 8 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, met and had a friendly talk with Hilary Onek, minister of Internal Affairs of Uganda, and his party who paid a courtesy call on him at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Thursday.

He is pleased that Uganda and the DPRK have good friendly and cooperative relations, he said, wishing the Korean people greater success in their efforts to build a thriving socialist nation under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il.