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Leading Officials Visit Russian Embassy to Offer Condolences

Date: 11/12/2025 | Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EN) | Read original version at source

Comrade Choe Son Hui, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Comrade No Kwang Chol, Minister of National Defence of the DPRK, and Comrade Kim Song Nam, Director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), visited the Russian embassy in the DPRK on December 10 and offered their condolences over the demise of Comrade Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the DPRK.

Laid at the venue of the mourning ceremony were the wreaths in the names of the International Department of the Central Committee of the WPK, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, the Department of Foreign Military Affairs of the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK and the DPRK-Russia Inter-Governmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy, Science and Technology.

Leading officials of the Party and the government observed a moment’s silence in memory of Comrade Aleksandr Matsegora who had devoted himself to the development of the DPRK-Russia friendly relations for the past thirty years and expressed condolences to the members of the bereaved family.

Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui made an entry in the condolence book.

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