Yun Jong-ho (third from proper), exterior financial relations minister of North Korea, exchanges a toast with Russia’s Pure Sources Minister Alexander Kozlov throughout a banquet at a resort in Pyongyang, on this photograph revealed by the Korean Central Information Company. (KCNA)
North Korea has held the eleventh assembly of the intergovernmental committee on financial cooperation with Russia and mentioned a spread of points on mutual cooperation, the North’s state media reported Wednesday.
Yun Jong-ho, the exterior financial relations minister of North Korea, and Russia’s Pure Sources Minister Alexander Kozlov attended the assembly of the Intergovernmental Committee for Cooperation in Commerce, Financial system, Science and Expertise in Pyongyang the day past, the Korean Central Information Company stated.
The 2 sides assessed the implementation of their earlier assembly’s agreements and mentioned intimately areas of mutual cooperation, together with power, agriculture, science, know-how, well being and tourism, the report stated.
A Russian delegation, led by Kozlov, is visiting Pyongyang for the committee assembly, the seventh session held within the North Korean capital because the bilateral committee’s inauguration in 1996.
On Monday, North Korean chief Kim Jong-un met with Kozlov and was seen receiving and seeing him off exterior the constructing the place their assembly came about, as a gesture of cordiality. This was the primary time a North Korean chief has met with a Russian head of the committee.
An official at South Korea’s unification ministry has described Kim’s private assembly with Kozlov as demonstrating his “expectations for bilateral financial exchanges” and “exhibiting off the North’s closeness” with Russia. (Yonhap)
