April 19, 2024
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Belarusian president wants to speed up projects with North Korea

President Lukashenko laments an “unreasonably low level” of relations with North Korea, meets Pyongyang’s new ambassador

North Korea and Belarus officially kicked off a new era of relations this week as President Aleksandr Lukashenko told Pyongyang’s first dedicated ambassador to Minsk that he hopes to accelerate cooperation.

“We have an unreasonably low level of relations,” Lukashenko said on Nov. 3, according to Belarusian state news agency Belta. “We need to work more actively in this direction.”

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