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Week of DPRK-Iran Friendship Opens

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, May 11 (KCNA) -- An inaugural meeting of the week of the DPRK-Iran friendship was held at the Chollima House of Culture here Monday. Ri Won Il, minister of Labour who is chairman of the DPRK-Iran Friendship Association, in his address said that the Korean and Iranian peoples have closely cooperated with each other in the struggle for independence against imperialism after opening the excellent ties of friendship long ago. The Iranian government and people have achieved great successes in the efforts to protect the gains of the Islamic revolution, achieve durable peace and stability in the area of Persian Gulf, accelerate economic construction and improve the standard of the people's living under the leadership of Seyed Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic revolution of Iran, and Seyed Mohammad Khatami, president of Iran, he noted, adding;
    The people of the DPRK will as ever make positive efforts to boost the friendly and cooperative relations with the Iranian people in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.
    Jalaleddin Namini Mianji, Iranian ambassador e. p. to the DPRK, in a speech said that the DPRK visit by Seyed Ali Khamenei in May 1989 marked a great event in developing the relations between the two countries.
    The bilateral relations have grown stronger despite the undisguised dominationist and unilateral policy the U.S. has pursued after listing Iran and the DPRK as parts of an "axis of evil" and targets of its preemptive nuclear attack, he noted.
    Recalling that under the leadership of Kim Jong Il the Korean people have conducted a vigorous drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation despite all sorts of difficulties, he hoped that the government and people of the DPRK would achieve greater success in all fields.
    Iran fully supports the Korean people in their struggle to reunify the country independently free from interference of foreign forces, he stressed.
    At the end of the meeting the participants saw an art performance given by members of the art group of the Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace.
    Present on invitation were staff members of the Iranian embassy here.