DPRK-Cuba Friendship Will Last Forever: Choe Ryong Hae

Pyongyang, December 3 (KCNA) -- Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and vice-chairman of the WPK Central Committee, was interviewed by the Cuba TV Broadcasting Friday. He is leading the DPRK party and state delegation on a visit Cuba to mourn the demise of Fidel Castro Ruz, supreme leader of the Cuban revolution. The Korean people are in bitter grief together with the Cuban people upon the news of the demise of Fidel Castro Ruz, he said, and went on: The demise of Fidel Castro Ruz is a great loss to the party, government and people of the DPRK and Cuba. Kim Jong Un, chairman of the WPK, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited the Cuban Embassy in Pyongyang to mourn the demise of Fidel Castro Ruz. The mourning period was declared in the DPRK and leading officials of the party, state and the army and officials of the armed forces, working people's organizations, ministries and national institutions visited the Cuban Embassy to mourn the demise of Fidel Castro Ruz. This is a clear expression of fraternal and militant friendship between the DPRK and Cuba. We are firmly convinced that the fraternal Cuban people would overcome the pain over the loss of their outstanding leader, firmly defend the country, revolution and socialism and achieve prosperity of the country under the guidance of Raul Castro Ruz true to the lifetime intention of Fidel Castro Ruz. -0-