Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, met Alexandr Kozlov, minister of Natural Resources and Ecology who is heading the government delegation of the Russian Federation on a visit to the DPRK to take part in the 11th meeting of the DPRK-Russia Inter-governmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy, Science and Technology, on Nov. 18.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un met with Alexandr Kozlov at the headquarters building of the WPK Central Committee and had a talk with him.

Kim Jong Un appreciated the fact that the bilateral solidarity and cooperation have been closer and deepened in different fields since the conclusion of a new treaty between the two countries.

He said that it is necessary to mutually and powerfully propel the co-prosperity and development of the two countries by further promoting the inter-governmental trade, economic, scientific and technological exchange and cooperation in a more extensive and diversified way as the DPRK-Russia friendly and cooperative relations have reached a new strategic level.

The talk proceeded in a friendly and sincere atmosphere.