Pyongyang, August 17 (KCNA) -- Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received a message of greeting from Ronald Ozzy Lamola, minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, on August 12 on the occasion of the 26th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The message affirmed that South Africa would strive to consolidate the bonds of friendship between the two countries. -0-