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Kim Yong Nam Meets Raul Castro Ruz

Pyongyang, December 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, met and had a talk with Raul Castro Ruz, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, in a friendly atmosphere at the office building of the Communist Party of Cuba on Dec. 4 when he made a stopover in Cuba on his return trip after taking part in the presidential inaugural ceremony in the United Mexican States.

Kim Yong Nam referred to the DPRK visit by Miguel Mario Diaz-Canel Bermudez, president of the Council of State and president of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Cuba, expressing belief that the bilateral friendly relations would ceaselessly develop.

Raul Castro Ruz wished Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un great success in his noble work of leading the struggle of the Korean people who turned out in the implementation of a new strategic line.

Present there were Pak Thae Song, vice-chairman of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and Ma Chol Su, DPRK ambassador to Cuba, and Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla, foreign minister of the Republic of Cuba.