According to the state news agency ACNC, the meeting took place at the Taedonggang Club for the Diplomatic Corps, and was attended by Chargé d’Affaires Boris Perez and other members of the Cuban Embassy in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Also present at the event were the Deputy Education Minister and Chairman of the Korean Committee for Solidarity with Cuba, Ri Chang Sik, officials and workers from the capital.

On the occasion of the Cuban anniversary, Ri extended warm congratulations to the brotherly Cuban people who are victoriously building a socialist State under the banner of anti-imperialist independence.

He stressed that the Workers’ Party of Korea and the DPRK Government firmly stand for cherishing and constantly developing the traditional friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries, which have reached new heights thanks to Comrade Kim Jong Un and respectable Comrade Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez.

Ri noted that in the future as well, the Korean people will strive hard to consolidate the militant unity with the Cuban people and will always be with them in the same trench of the struggle for anti-imperialist independence and socialism.

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