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October 13, 2024
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Top N. Korean official, Azerbaijan’s president discuss “expanding” economic ties

Baku set to open 18th Non-Aligned Movement summit with leaders of North Korean allies in attendance

North Korea and Azerbaijan are hoping to expand economic and humanitarian ties, the official website of Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said Thursday in a report on his meeting in Baku with a visiting DPRK official.

Choe Ryong Hae, who serves as North Korea’s first vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission (SAC) and president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly (SPA), arrived in Baku Thursday, DPRK state media reported the following day. 

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