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Democratic Korea Celebrates Kim Jong-il's 77th Birthday in Cairo


Fri 15 Feb 2019 | 12:55 AM
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By Maydaa Abo El-Nadar

CAIRO, Feb. 15 (SEE) - The Embassy of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (known as North Korea) in Cairo celebrated on Thursday the 77th anniversary of the North Korean Leader Kim Jong-il ’s birthday, born on the 16th of February 1942, on Korea’s sacred mountain Baekdu.

 North Korea’s Ambassador Ma Dong Hoy opened

his speech saying, “Relations between our country and Egypt are based on

history, friendship, and cooperation. Former leaders of both countries set the

bases and developed these mutual ties.”

He added

that “We hope that Egyptian government and people will support Koreans to

spread peace and prosperity across the Korean Peninsula. We also trust that you

will positively contribute in developing the friendship between the two Koreas.”

Regarding

the relations between their neighboring country, Hoy expressed, “Thanks to the

procedures taken by our country at the beginning of the last year, North Korea-South

Korea relations have entered a new phase.”

Worth

noting is that after a first summit was held in Singapore in June, a second

summit will take place in Vietnam on the 27th and the 28th

of February, where the North Korean President Kim Jong Un and his USA’s counterpart

Donald Trump are going to meet.