DPRK Ambassador to Vietnam Kim Chang II and Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Ho Anh Tuan cut the ribbon to open an exhibition on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) books and fine arts in Hanoi on Feb. 15.

With more than 200 works, the exhibition is featuring the DPRK’s beauty and achievements during its national construction and defence over the past 60 years.

The exhibition, the fourth of its kind in Vietnam, is to mark the 69 th birthday of DPRK leader Kim Jong-Il and aims to bolster solidarity between the two countries and to raise their traditional friendship to a new height./.