According to the state-run KCNA news agency, in his letter to Premier Pham Minh Chinh, the Korean leader expressed his wishes for the Vietnamese people to achieve greater success in building a powerful and prosperous state.
Meanwhile, the DPRK foreign minister conveyed to her counterpart Bui Thanh Son hopes that the ties between the two countries will continue to develop positively.
A few days ago, DPRK top leader Kim Jong Un also congratulated Communist Party General Secretary and Vietnamese President To Lam.
Vietnam celebrates its National Day on September 2 because on this date in 1945, its first president, Ho Chi Minh, read the Declaration of Independence against the defeated French colonialism in the capital’s Ba Dinh Square.
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