North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un met with a special envoy from Cuba, the North’s state-run Korean Central News Agency reported Friday.

Salvador Antonio Valdes Mesa, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) and vice president of the Council of State of Cuba, visited North Korea as a special envoy on behalf of Cuban President Raul Castro Ruz, leading a delegation of Cuban officials. His delegation arrived at Pyongyang on Tuesday.

Kim emphasized the strong relationship between the DPRK and Cuba

“The Cuban party, government and people are always sided