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Talks held between foreign ministers of DPRK and Laos
  Talks were held at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang on the 12th between Choe Son Hui, Foreign Minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, and Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Foreign Minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
  Present there from the DPRK side were Vice-Minister Pak Sang Gil and other officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and from the opposite side, the party of the foreign minster.
  At the talks, both sides exchanged views on the issues for further strengthening and developing the traditional relations of friendship between the DPRK and Laos by thoroughly implementing the agreements made by the top leaders of the two countries in October and for offering mutual support and close cooperation in the international arena, and reached a consensus of views.