Pyongyang, October 24 (KCNA) -- Hoang Binh Quan, chairman of the Commission for External Affairs of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Communist Party, who led the delegation of the Party, gave his impressions of the DPRK.

He said:

While staying in the DPRK, we saw the Korean people waging a dynamic struggle to implement the behest of President Kim Il Sung under the leadership of General Secretary Kim Jong Il.

The people of the DPRK have registered great successes in socialist construction.

The two parties and countries of Vietnam and the DPRK have good friendly relations.

The party and government of the DPRK extended unstinted support and encouragement to Vietnam in its national liberation struggle, cause of reunification and socialist construction.

We will never forget this.

The party, the government and the people of Vietnam attach great importance to the friendly relations with the DPRK.

The friendly relations between Vietnam and the DPRK are growing stronger under the deep care of the top leaders of the two countries.

We set store by these friendly relations and will make positive efforts to boost them.