Pyongyang, November 12 (KCNA) -- Thongsavanh Phomvihane, foreign minister of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, and his party arrived here on Nov. 11 to visit the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the invitation of the DPRK Foreign Ministry.

They were greeted at Pyongyang International Airport by officials of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, the Lao ambassador to the DPRK and members of his embassy. -0-