{"id":98025,"date":"2024-07-29T19:31:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T16:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/98025\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"foreign-minister-touting-north-korea-after-visit","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/98025\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign minister touting North Korea after visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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July 29, Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> North Korea is a very interesting country in contrast to fake stories imposed on the international community by certain media, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maksim Ry\u017eanko\u016d said today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After visiting the East Asian nation on July 24-25, he described it as a hardworking, neat and developing nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Construction is under way in all the cities that we flew over or drove through. Pyongyang is a very clean, nice and tidy city. However, it does not have huge mansions outside the beltway like we have here sometimes,” Ry\u017eanko\u016d told state media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his opinion, North Korea\u2019s living standards are higher than in many Asian, African and Latin American countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

North Korea is also cleaner and more orderly than Europe, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Pyongyang, Ry\u017eanko\u016d held talks with Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui and Prime Minister Kim Tok-hun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made the trip in return for the 2015 visit by Ri Su-yong, then-foreign minister of North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April 2024, Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister Ja\u016dhien \u0160astako\u016d visited Pyongyang as part of “scheduled political consultations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Siarhiej Alejnik, Belarus’ previous foreign minister, and North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Son Gyong discussed stronger cooperation on January 18 on the sidelines of a Non-Aligned Movement summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on September 15, Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka suggested that Russia, Belarus and North Korea should consider trilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UN Security Council sanctioned North Korea for developing its nuclear program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country ranks 161st in freedom of speech in Article 19’s latest report, only three lines below Belarus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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