N Korea seeks to boost cooperation with RF in all areas -deputy FM.

PYONGYANG, March 17 (Itar-Tass) - Stronger relations with Russia in
the political, economic and cultural sectors remain North Korea's
unchanged policy, North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Kun Sun Un said in
an interview with Itar-Tass after his official visit to Moscow this month.
"We plan to further step up traditionally friendly bilateral relations
in the interest of our nations and to expand interaction to resolve
international problems, including those of ensuring peace and security on
the Korean Peninsula and North East Asia," he said.
During his visit to Moscow Kun Sun Un held talks with his Russian
counterpart Alexei Borodavkin and first deputy foreign minister Andrei
Denisov.
The diplomat visited Khabarovsk and Vladivostok, where he met with the
local authorities and the president's mission in the Far Eastern federal
district.
The two countries stressed the need "to take bilateral relations to a
new level this year, when the countries mark the tenth anniversary of the
Treaty of Friendship, Good Neighborly Relations and Cooperation and the
Korean-Russian Declaration as well as the 65th anniversary of Korea's
liberation," Kun Sun Un said.
"Sincere exchange of opinions took place to achieve new practical
results in bilateral relations," the North Korean diplomat said.

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