Leaving together with Kim were his suite members including Ri Ryong Nam, minister of Foreign Trade, Kang Min Chol, minister of Mining Industry, and Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs.

They were seen off by Phongsavath Boupha, minister and secretary general of the Presidency, Sounthon Sayachak, vice-chairman of the Committee for External Affairs of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, the deputy mayor of the Vientiane City, Kiettisak Keobanhdith, Lao ambassador to the DPRK, and other officials concerned and Han Pong Ho, DPRK ambassador to Laos, and his embassy officials.