Present there were the delegation of the Associated Press headed by its President and CEO Thomas Curley.

Kim Pyong Ho, director general of the KCNA, officials concerned and AP bureau staffers attended.

Earlier, there were talks between the two delegations at the KCNA.

An agreement on the establishment of the AP Bureau in Pyongyang was signed.

Kim Pyong Ho and Thomas Curley inked the agreement.

Thomas said the opening of the bureau would bring hundreds of millions of people around the world the cultural understanding and access to stories of political and economic development of the DPRK.

He has great expectations for good journalism, he said, adding this is a great opportunity to just understand and report.

The participants toured the bureau office.