Pyongyang, December 3 (KCNA) — Pak Thae Song, premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, sent a message of greeting to Sonexay Siphandone, prime minister of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, on Tuesday on the occasion of its 50th founding anniversary.

The message said that the Lao government and people have made signal successes in all fields of socio-economic life while firmly preserving the socialist idea under the correct leadership of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party for the past 50 years.

The message expressed belief that the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation would grow stronger in the spirit of the agreement reached at the historic Pyongyang summit between the top leaders of the two countries.