[USFK Forums] N. Korea Holds Banquet for Cambodian King Norodum Shihanouk [Red Orbit]

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North Korea Holds Banquet for Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk

Text of report in English by North Korean news agency KCNA

Pyongyang, 4 March: The Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] gave a banquet at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Friday [3 March] in honour of visiting Great King of Cambodia Norodom Sihanouk. Present on invitation were the great king and the great queen, Cambodian guests, Chhorn Hay, Cambodian ambassador to the DPRK, and embassy officials.

Speaking at the banquet, Yang Hyong-sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the SPA [Supreme People's Assembly], said: We will in the future, too, actively support the patriotic cause of the great king and make every possible effort to further expand and develop the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation with the Cambodian people, true to the behests of President Kim Il-sung and the great intention of leader Kim Jong-il.

We highly praise the great king for his devoted activities for national reconciliation and unity and the prosperity of the country as the father of the Cambodian nation and sincerely wish the Cambodian people greater success in their work to build peaceful, independent, powerful and prosperous Cambodia under the leadership of the great king, he noted, expressing the belief that the current visit of the great king to the DPRK will mark an important occasion in further strengthening the ties of fraternal friendship between the Korean and Cambodian peoples.

Norodom Sihanouk, speaking next, stressed that Generalissimo Kim Il-sung, the great father of the Korean people, and the great leader Marshal Kim Jong-il who is successfully carrying forward his cause have performed noteworthy feats in the world's history in the greatest heroic patriotic struggle for the liberation of Korea and the building of socialism of juche.

The Kingdom of Cambodia and the DPRK have closely supported and cooperated, constantly united and solidarized with each other in any circumstances since 1965 of glory and happiness when he forged fraternal bonds with Kim Il-sung, he said, stressing that the Kingdom of Cambodia has fully supported and will support the foreign policy and the patriotic and just policies for independently and peacefully reunifying the North and the South of Korea pursued by Kim Jong-il.



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Published: 2006/03/04 06:00:10 CST

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