Present at the signing ceremony from the DPRK side were Secretary General Ma Chol Su and other members of the friendship association and from the Japanese side Kanji Inoki, member of the House of Councilors of Japan and chief director of the Sports Peace Community Association, and his party.

Ma Chol Su and Kanji Inoki inked the agreement.

The representative office will act an agent for contacts and businesses to ensure exchange and cooperation in sports and other fields between the DPRK and Japan and thus contribute to creating the atmosphere of friendship between the two peoples.

It is located in Central District of Pyongyang.

Kanji Inoki told KCNA that he was very pleased with the opening of the representative office in Pyongyang.

Recalling international sports and cultural events and contests held between sports universities of the two countries in Pyongyang in 1995 and 2012, he expressed the will to conduct more activities of various kinds.