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Cuban Ambassador Gives Reception

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 7 (KCNA) -- Cuban Ambassador to the DPRK Ruben Perez Valdes hosted a reception at the Taedonggang Club for the Diplomatic Corps Thursday on the 46th anniversary of the victory of the Cuban revolution. The ambassador said in his speech that the Cuban people would always win victory as they are with the Korean people and People's Army, comrades-in-arms and comrades who have invariably supported and helped them, and, in particular, with Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il.
    Fidel Castro Ruz stresses the need to learn from Korea, the invincible fortress in defending socialist principles, independence and sovereignty from the U.S. imperialists' aggression and threat, the ambassador noted.
    He wished the Korean people greater success in building a great prosperous powerful nation this year.
    Speaking in reply, Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, said the pro-U.S. dictatorship was brought to an end in Cuba 46 years ago and a genuine government of workers and peasants was established. That was an historic event of the birth of the first socialist state in the Western Hemisphere and an epochal turning point in the life of the Cuban people aspiring after an independent life, he added.
    Noting that the fraternal Cuban people today, under the leadership of Fidel Castro Ruz, are honorably defending the country and the gains of the revolution, frustrating at every step the persistent political pressure and sanctions and blockade of the United States, he said the Korean people sincerely hope that the Cuban people would make a bigger advance in the future.
    It is the consistent stand of our Party, government and people to steadily boost the traditional friendly and cooperative relations with socialist Cuba, he said, and stated: The Korean people will as ever advance shoulder to shoulder with the fraternal Cuban people in the cause of defending socialism against imperialism.
    Present at the reception on invitation were Kim Yong Jin, minister of Education who is chairman of the Korea-Cuba Solidarity Committee, Kim Kyong Ho, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, Pak Sun Hui, chairperson of the Central Committee of the Korean Democratic Women's Union, and Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.