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Secretary of WPK CC meets with Russian President
  Ri Hi Yong, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Chairman of the Central Inspection Commission of the Party, on a visit to Russia at the head of the delegation of the WPK, met Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation, at the Kremlin of Moscow on February 27.
  At the talk, President Putin asked Ri Hi Yong to convey his warmest greetings and best wishes to Comrade Kim Jong Un, President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
  Ri Hi Yong courteously conveyed the militant greetings of Kim Jong Un to Vladimir Putin.
  Saying that Kim Jong Un pays deep attention to the development of cooperative relations between Russia and the DPRK, Putin warmly welcomed the delegation of the WPK to Russia.
  He highly appreciated once again the historic meaning of 2024 when the traditional friendly relations between the states of Russia and the DPRK were tremendously developed into those of comprehensive strategic partnership.
  Saying the two countries have been firmly linked with good tradition of friendship and good neighbour, and military comradeship, he expressed thanks to the DPRK for actively supporting the Russian Federation.
  He expressed the belief that the 2025--2027 Protocol on Expanding and Developing in Depth the Many-Sided Cooperation between the WPK and the United Russia Party will make a great contribution to developing the relations between the ruling parties of the two countries.
  Present at the talk were Kim Song Nam, Director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the WPK; Yuri Ushakov, Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation for External Policy; Vladimir Vladimirovich Yakushev, Secretary of the General Council of the United Russia Party and First Vice-Chairman of the Federation Council of Russia; and Alexandr Kozlov, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology.