Pyongyang, March 31 (KCNA) -- Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, met with a Russian TASS delegation led by Director General Andrei Kondrashov on March 30.

Choe Son Hui warmly welcomed the delegation's visit to the DPRK.

Andrei Kondrashov gave his impression that he was deeply moved by the development of the DPRK and the kind hospitality during his visit, expressing the readiness to sincerely implement the agreement between the news agencies of the two countries in the spirit of the treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between Russia and the DPRK.

Present there were officials of the DPRK Foreign Ministry and the charge d'affaires ad interim of the Russian embassy here. -0-