Present there on invitation were members of the delegation of the CPV led by Ha Thi Khiet, secretary of its Central Committee and director of its Mass Movement Department, and Pham Viet Hung, Vietnamese ambassador to the DPRK.

Secretary Choe Thae Bok and Vice Department Director Pak Kun Gwang and other officials of the C.C., the WPK were present there.

Choe Thae Bok said in his speech that the WPK has strengthened iinto the most revolutionary and militant, invincible party under the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un.

He noted that it is the consistent stand of the DPRK to invariably boost the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation which were forged by the preceding leaders and to which the top leaders of the two countries pay deep attention.

Ha Thi Khiet extended congratulations to the Korean people on having made leaping progress in the building of a thriving socialist nation under the leadership of the WPK, adding that the party, government and people of Vietnam would always set store by and boost the friendly relations between the two countries.