Visiting Vietnamese Communist Party leader Nong Duc Manh(L) poses with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during their talks in Pyongyang, 17 October 2007. Manh Thursday left North Korea after a visit aimed at strenghthening ties between the two communist nations, state media said.Vietnam party chief leaves NKorea, ties strengthened
SEOUL (AFP) — Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nong Duc Manh Thursday left North Korea after a visit aimed at strenghthening ties between the two communist nations, state media said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il saw Manh off at an airport on the outskirts of Pyongyang in a farewell ceremony attended by thousands of people waving flags and flowers, said the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
In a farewell message, Manh said the deals reached between the two sides would give "a powerful impetus" to putting their friendship and cooperation "on a new stable, realistic and effective phase of development," the agency said.
Manh was the first Vietnamese party chief to visit North Korea since Ho Chi Minh made the trip in 1957, although government leaders have exchanged visits in recent years.
North Korea and Vietnam, which established ties in 1950, are two of the world's five remaining communist countries, alongside China, Laos and Cuba.
During his three-day stay in Pyongyang, Manh paid homage to the North's late founding father Kim Il-Sung, whose body is on display at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace.
The Vietnamese leader also visited Kim Il-Sung's homeland, which is revered by North Koreans as a holy place, visited an electric cable company and attended a propaganda festival praising the North's communist rulers, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said.
At talks Wednesday with the North's number two leader, Kim Yong-Nam, Manh said Vietnam would donate 2,000 tons of rice to the impoverished country.
Pyongyang lent Hanoi military support during the Vietnam war, but ties soured in 1979 after Vietnam ousted Cambodia's Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge, drawing protests from Chinese ally North Korea.
While North Korea has remained isolated and poor, Vietnam opened its doors with its doi moi (renewal) reforms of 1986, grew its economy and sought closer international ties, including with former enemy the United States.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il saw Manh off at an airport on the outskirts of Pyongyang in a farewell ceremony attended by thousands of people waving flags and flowers, said the North's official Korean Central News Agency.
In a farewell message, Manh said the deals reached between the two sides would give "a powerful impetus" to putting their friendship and cooperation "on a new stable, realistic and effective phase of development," the agency said.
Manh was the first Vietnamese party chief to visit North Korea since Ho Chi Minh made the trip in 1957, although government leaders have exchanged visits in recent years.
North Korea and Vietnam, which established ties in 1950, are two of the world's five remaining communist countries, alongside China, Laos and Cuba.
During his three-day stay in Pyongyang, Manh paid homage to the North's late founding father Kim Il-Sung, whose body is on display at the Kumsusan Memorial Palace.
The Vietnamese leader also visited Kim Il-Sung's homeland, which is revered by North Koreans as a holy place, visited an electric cable company and attended a propaganda festival praising the North's communist rulers, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) said.
At talks Wednesday with the North's number two leader, Kim Yong-Nam, Manh said Vietnam would donate 2,000 tons of rice to the impoverished country.
Pyongyang lent Hanoi military support during the Vietnam war, but ties soured in 1979 after Vietnam ousted Cambodia's Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge, drawing protests from Chinese ally North Korea.
While North Korea has remained isolated and poor, Vietnam opened its doors with its doi moi (renewal) reforms of 1986, grew its economy and sought closer international ties, including with former enemy the United States.
6 comments:
Communism is not a happy ideology. Look at the two people. One(from vietnam)with a fake smile and the other one looks so depress. Their lives is full of unhappiness.
When you have arrived in North Korea airport, you can smell the death bodies of north korean people by starvation. The smell was so strong and so bad. People are dying everywhere without basic foods. This Kim Jong Il has decided to come to Cambodia to buy some rice with their faked USA notes. This is how a dictatorship must face with the reality.
Why the heck does Vietnam need to meet North Korean officials? Can this be an attempt to circumvent Cambodia's recent move to establish closer tie with North Korean?
Does Vietnam fear Cambodia independence from its sphere of influences?
If so, then Cambodia's must move to develop more friends in the world. This should be a new strategy to counter Vietnam influence in Cambodia. While Vietnam is an important trade partner in military training, good and services, its should not be the only partner for Cambodia in this 21th century.
If we observe closely, Vietnam has not be very helpful to Laos. Its friendship with the Laotian has not been good for Laos economy..
Planet of the Apes Meet Mad Man Jong Ill Mind II, coming soon to theatre near you.
POWER TO ASIA!!! yes! yes! yes!
Since China has abandonned this Kim Jong Ill regime, this regime is now looking for freind around china to contain china influences to other asia countries to put North Korea isolated. China has angered with North korea for it refusal to abandonne it nucleair program which is too dangerous for China. Therefore China has asked USA to punish North korea for refusal to adopt the UN policy . Areak Prey
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