Vietnam’s top leader to visit North Korea this week: ministry
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VIETNAM’S top leader To Lam will visit North Korea for three days from Thursday, Hanoi’s foreign affairs ministry said.
Lam, the ruling Communist Party’s general secretary, “will pay a state visit” to North Korea from Oct 9-11, according to a ministry statement on Monday.
He will attend an event marking the 80th anniversary of the founding of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, it added.
The trip will be Lam’s first to the diplomatically isolated nuclear nation as Vietnam’s party chief, and follows his August tour of South Korea.
The last visit by a Vietnamese party leader to North Korea was in 2007, state media said.
The North’s leader, Kim Jong Un, last came to Vietnam in 2019 to hold a summit with US President Donald Trump, followed by a state visit. AFP
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