Pyongyang, April 5 (KCNA) -- Kim Song Nam, director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, on April 4 met and had a friendly talk with the delegation of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation led by Kazbek Taysaev, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and head of the Russia-DPRK Friendship Parliamentary Group of the State Duma, which paid a courtesy call on him.

Present there were An Hyon Min, vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and other officials of the C.C., WPK and Alexandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK. -0-