Pyongyang, December 11 (KCNA) -- Choe Son Hui, minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, No Kwang Chol, minister of National Defence of the DPRK, and Kim Song Nam, director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, visited the Russian embassy here on December 10 to offer condolences on the demise of Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, Russian extraordinary ambassador to the DPRK.

Laid at the venue of the mourning ceremony were the wreaths in the name of the International Department of the Central Committee of the WPK, the Foreign Ministry of the DPRK, the Department of Foreign Military Affairs of the Ministry of National Defence of the DPRK and the DPRK-Russia Inter-governmental Committee for Cooperation in Trade, Economy, Science and Technology.

Leading officials of the Party and the government observed a moment's silence in memory of Aleksandr Matsegora who devoted himself to the development of the DPRK-Russia friendly relations over the past thirty years and expressed condolences to members of the bereaved family.

Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui made an entry in a condolence book. -0-