Addis Ababa, September 18, 2023 (Addis Walta) – Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), visited Far Eastern Federal University, the Maritime Territorial Aquarium and the Arnika Bio-Feed Mill on September 17.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un toured Far Eastern Federal University on Sunday morning.
Accompanying him were DPRK Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui, Marshals of the Korean People’s Army Ri Pyong Chol and Pak Jong Chon, DPRK Minister of National Defence Kang Sun Nam, O Su Yong and Pak Thae Song, secretaries of the C.C., WPK, and other senior officials and suite members.
Far Eastern Federal University on Russky Island of Vladivostok City is a large- scale comprehensive scientific, educational and research center, the pride of the Far Eastern region, which has 27 colleges, 47 faculties and more than 400
research centers and labs. In particular, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visiting the Russian Federation in April Juche 108 (2019) had the historic first meeting and talks with President Putin there.
Kim Jong Un was greeted by Alexandr Kozlov, minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia, Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of the Maritime Territory Administration, and Boris Korovets, president of Far Eastern Federal University.
He has briefed by the president of the university on the size of the university, its educational system, future development plan and prospect.
Noting that Far Eastern Federal University is dearer to him as it is the place where he met with President Putin for the first time and DPRK students are studying, Kim Jong Un expressed expectation that the university would achieve better development in the future and play an important role in the cooperation between the DPRK and Russia in the field of science and technology.
The president of the university presented a gift to Kim Jong Un in welcome of his visit to the university, saying that it is the highest honor to have him at the university.
Kim Jong Un went round the exhibition houses along the beach in the campus of the university.
Visiting the exhibition houses of Maritime Territory and the Ministry of Industry and Trade, he highly appreciated the remarkable successes made by the Russian people in the fields of economy and science and technology.
He met the DPRK students studying at Far Eastern Federal University.
Greatly excited, the students broke into cheers of “Hurrah!”, looking up to Kim Jong Un who personally called them and showed his parental love for them despite his busy schedule on a long journey of foreign visit for the prosperity of the country and the well-being of its people and for the friendship and solidarity between the DPRK and Russia.
He learned in detail about the studies and life of the students. Saying that the country is hoping and waiting for the successes in their studies and they should become competent sci-tech talents and revolutionary talents who would contribute a large share to the prosperity of the great state by studying harder and making tireless efforts, he had a photo taken with them.
He waved to the students as a token of his goodbye to them.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Maritime Territorial Aquarium.
The aquarium, which was opened in 2016, is a scientific education complex contributing to the conservation and propagation of sea creatures and education about them as a branch of the National Scientific Center of Marine Biology in the Far East Federal Region under the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He watched white dolphins and other sea animals performing acrobatic feats at the dolphinarium and looked round various places of the aquarium.
He appreciated the aquarium, successfully built on the initiative and under the attention of President Putin, for winning a reputation as a popular scientific research base and a leisure facility, and expressed thanks to Director Olga Shevchenko for kind guidance.
Alexandr Kozlov, minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia, and Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of the Maritime Territory Administration, hosted a reception in welcome of Kim Jong Un’s visit to Vladivostok City.
Present there on invitation were Foreign Minister of the DPRK Choe Son Hui, Marshals of the Korean People’s Army Ri Pyong Chol and Pak Jong Chon, Minister of National Defence of the DPRK Kang Sun Nam, Secretaries of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea O Su Yong and Pak Thae Song, other senior officials and suite members, DPRK Ambassador to the Russian Federation Sin Hong Chol and DPRK Consul General in Vladivostok Jo Sok Chol.
Senior officials from the capital and local areas of Russia were on hand.
Kozlov, minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia, expressed his will to further expand the cooperation between the two countries, expressing thanks again to the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un for visiting the Russian Federation and Vladivostok City this significant year marking the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Russian Federation and the DPRK.
In his reply speech Pak Thae Song conveyed sincere greetings to the government and people of the Russian Federation that put their sincerest efforts into successfully ensuring the visit. He hoped that the efforts of the Russian
people and government to build a powerful country and positively contribute to the independent and peaceful development of mankind by dint of it would bring good results.
A performance was given at the reception by artistes of Vladivostok City. The reception proceeded in a warm friendly atmosphere.
After the reception, Kim Jong Un met Ambassador Sin Hong Chol and Consul General Jo Sok Chol and staff members of the consulate general and had a significant photo session with them in consideration of their devoted efforts to uphold the Party’s foreign policy abroad.
Kim Jong Un visited the Arnika Bio-Feed Mill in the afternoon.
He was greeted by President Alexandr Generalov and General Director Ludmilla Tekutieva of the Co. Ltd. of the mill.
Being briefed on the mill, he went round its various production processes and had a warm talk with officials of the company.
Generalov presented him with a gift in reflection of the minds of the mill’s employees.
Kim Jong Un had a souvenir photo taken with the president and the general director of the company and the governor of the Maritime Territory Administration.
He, concluding his visit to Vladivostok City, expressed thanks to the senior officials from the capital and local areas of Russia for their kind greeting and guidance.
Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Concludes His Visit to Russian Federation
Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), left Vladivostok City on September 17 after successfully completing the schedule of his official goodwill visit to the Russian Federation.
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited several objects in the fields of military, economy, science, education and culture while staying in Vladivostok City, the last leg of his official goodwill visit to the Russian Federation, for two days in succession.
At the Artyom-Primorski Station No. 1, there was a send-off ceremony for Kim Jong Un who starts his way home after bringing about a new radical turn in the history of the development of the DPRK-Russia relations.
The guard of honor of the three services of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the military band lined up at the railway station yard.
Present at the station to see off the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un were Alexandr Kozlov, minister of Natural Resources and Ecology, Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of the Maritime Territory Administration, Byacheslav Kwon, mayor of Artyom City, and Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK.
A send-off ceremony for Kim Jong Un took place.
The national anthems of the DPRK and the Russian Federation were solemnly played.
Kim Jong Un reviewed the guard of honor of the three services of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
He bid farewell to the senior officials of Russia from the capital and local areas who came to send him off.
He extended his heartfelt thanks to President Putin and the Russian leadership and people for their special care and cordial hospitality in every place during the whole period of his visit to Russia, wishing Russia prosperity and its people well- being.
The private train of Kim Jong Un left amid the farewells of dear Russian friends.
The official goodwill visit to the Russian Federation by Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the WPK and president of the State Affairs of the DPRK, will shine long in history as the occasion of further consolidating the traditional ties of good neighbor and cooperation between the DPRK and Russia based on the comradely friendship and militant unity and opening up a new chapter of the development of the bilateral relations.
