La North Korea and the Vietnam agreed to strengthen their bilateral collaboration through a series of agreements covering defense, foreign affairs and health sectors, North Korea's official news agency reported Saturday KCNA.
The agreements were signed Friday in Pyongyang, on the sidelines of the celebrations of 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK). The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met for the occasion the General Secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party To Lam, on an official visit to the country.
The KCNA did not provide no details on the precise content of the agreements, but this announcement illustrates the diplomatic rapprochement between the two socialist states, which share a long history of friendship dating back to the Cold War.
The meeting comes as Pyongyang multiplies the signs of openness towards its traditional Asian partners, notably China and Russia, while seeking to break its international isolation amid heightened tensions with the United States and South Korea.
According to observers, this cooperation could allow the two countries toexchange military and medical technologiesand of strengthen their political ties in a spirit of solidarity between communist regimes.
