Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Former Cambodian King Sihanouk Meets With, Hosts Banquet for DPRK's Kim Yong Il

Top, Sihanouk (left) greeting Kim Yong Il at Phnom Penh Royal Palace on 2 November; below, meeting between Sihanouk and Kim Yong Il at the Royal Palace on the same day (TVK, 2 Nov)
Top, Sihanouk leading Kim Yong Il to the banquet table; below, from right, former Queen Monineath Sihanouk, Sihanouk, Kim Yong Il, and Deputy Prime Minister and Royal Palace Minister Kong Sam-ol sitting at the table (TVK, 2 Nov)

04 Nov 2007
TVK

Cambodian Government-run Phnom Penh Television Kampuchea in Cambodian at 0500 GMT on 4 November carried a 17-minute recorded video report, during its midday newscast, on reception hosted by former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk and former Queen Norodom Monineath Sihanouk in "honor DPRK Cabinet Premier Kim Yong Il [Kim Yo'ng-il] and his entourage" at Serei Mongkol Pavilion in the Phnom Penh Royal Palace on the night of 2 November.

The report said that on that occasion, DPRK Cabinet Premier Kim Yong Il presented a painting to the former king and his consort and another one to King Norodom Sihamoni as souvenirs.

For his part, the report added, the former Cambodian king and queen presented the DPRK cabinet premier with a silver bowl as memento.

In his speech at the event, the report said, the former king "most warmly and intimately welcomed and thanked the DPRK cabinet premier and his entourage for taking their valuable time to see him, during the high-level Korean government delegation's official visit to Cambodia." He "highly appreciated the visit to Cambodia by His Excellency [HE] the DPRK Cabinet Premier," saying, "it has brought considerable interests to further tightening the time-honored and fine bilateral relations of great friendship and cooperation between the peoples of the two countries, the Kingdom of Cambodia and DPRK, making them firmer and more prosperous in this new historic stage, and stable into the future."

For his part, the report added, the DPRK cabinet premier "deeply thanked" the former king and his consort for "the splendid audience." He expressed "delight, with lofty pride, over his visit to Cambodia" at the time when former king Sihanouk's 85th birthday was celebrated.

The DPRK cabinet premier also conveyed "lofty thoughts and respects as well as greetings from Marshal Kim Jong Il, the great leader of the Korean people, and HE Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)," to the former king on his birthday.

The DPRK cabinet premier expressed his great pleasure with the wonderful souvenirs, endowed with lofty historic significance for the relations between the two countries' peoples, "thanks to the most clear-sighted initiative of former King Sihanouk and the cleverness of HE Generalissimo Kim Il Song, the great leader of the Korean people."

The report said that the DPRK cabinet premier also briefed former King Sihanouk of the outcomes of his Cambodia visit aimed at "further strengthening and expanding the relations between the two countries, making them further prosperous."

For his part, the report added, former King Sihanouk thanked the DPRK cabinet premier for his briefing in which he recalled the friendship between him and HE Generalissimo Kim Il Song, the great leader of the Korean people, for the "supreme interests of the two countries' peoples." He also thanked him for his remarks that aimed at "tightening the relations between the two nations, the brotherly DPRK and Cambodia." Sihanouk conveyed, through the DPRK cabinet premier, his profoundly thoughtful and affectionate greetings and best wishes to DPRK leaders Kim Jong Il and Kim Yong Nam.

The report said that afterward, former King Sihanouk and Queen Monineath Sihanouk hosted a "sumptuous banquet in great honor of DPRK Cabinet premier Kim Yong Il and his entourage."

Present at the reception, the report added, were Kong Sam-ol, deputy prime minister and minister of royal palace; Veng Sereivut, state minister and minister of culture; Mrs. Khek Kai Mealy Sisoda, Cambodia's ambassador to the PRC, and Chhorn Hai, Cambodian ambassador to the DPRK.

The report also said that at the event, the former Cambodian king and the DPRK cabinet premier respectively gave a speech "reiterating further support for the great relations of friendship between Cambodia and the DPRK, making them firm, glorious, and eternal."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ah Sihanouk must go to the hell

because he is the big murder of about 1.7 millions of Cambodians (1975-1979)