The special write-up was illustrated with a photo of President Kim Il Sung receiving Zh. Sambuu, former chairman of the Presidium of the Great People's Khural, on a visit to the DPRK in 1961, and a photo the President had taken with Korean children when he was visiting Mongolia after the Korean war.

The year 2013 marks the 65th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Mongolia and the DPRK, the news said, introducing in detail the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation.

The improvement of the Mongolia-DPRK relations is unthinkable without the President, the news said, elaborating on his relations with Zh. Sambuu, former chairman of the Presidium of the Great People's Khural and former Mongolian ambassador to the DPRK, and J. Tsevelma and O. Cherma who were teachers of the Mongolian School of Korean War Orphans.

The governments and peoples of the two countries have helped and supported each other and boosted cooperation in several fields. The bilateral relations are steadily improving in the interests of the two peoples under the deep care of the leaders of both countries, the news added.