Togolese President Faure Gnassingbé last week received the credentials of a newly-appointed North Korean ambassador, the DPRK’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and the Rodong Sinmun reported on Thursday.

Jon Tong Chol — who serves concurrently as the DPRK’s ambassador to Nigeria — presented his credentials to President Gnassingbé on February 12, KCNA said in a Korean-language report.

The DPRK previously operated an embassy in the Togolese capital city of Lomé until 1998, after which diplomatic relations between the two countries have been managed by its embassy in Lagos.

March last year saw KCNA report that Jon had been appointed