▲ North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui (5th from R) holds talks with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Le Hoai Trung (4th from L), a special envoy of Vietnamese President and ruling Communist Party head To Lam, during their meeting at the Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on May 13, 2026, in this photo released by the North's official Korean Central News Agency. (For Use Only in the Republic of Korea. No Redistribution) (Yonhap)

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(LEAD) Top diplomats of N. Korea, Vietnam agree to advance cooperation: KCNA

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SEOUL, May 14 (Yonhap) -- North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui has held talks with her Vietnamese counterpart, Le Hoai Trung, and agreed to deepen bilateral exchanges and cooperation in various fields, Pyongyang's state media reported Thursday.

The two foreign ministers held the meeting the previous day in Pyongyang, and discussed a wide range of international and regional issues, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).

Trung arrived in North Korea on Tuesday as a special envoy of Vietnamese President To Lam.

At the meeting, Choe said North Korea hopes to strengthen friendly ties with Vietnam, citing the outcome of summit talks between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Vietnam's Lam in October last year in Pyongyang, the KCNA said

Both sides "agreed to further deepen exchanges and cooperation in various areas and strengthen strategic communication as well as mutual support and cooperation between external policy organs of the two countries," the report said.

Separately, Kim Song-nam, secretary of the Workers' Party's central committee and chief of its international affairs department, also met Trung at the Pyongyang Assembly Hall on the same day.

The two vowed to further strengthen party-to-party exchanges and cooperation, in keeping with their relationship having "risen to a new height" following the summit.

At that time, Lam visited Pyongyang to attend celebrations marking the 80th founding anniversary of the North's ruling party. It marked the first visit to the North by a Vietnamese top leader in 18 years.

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