Rare photos of President Ho Chi Minh and DPRK President Kim Il-sung
On the occasion of the 109th anniversary of the birthday of DPRK President Kim Il-sung (April 15, 1912 - April 15, 2021), let’s take a look at rare photos of the two mutual visits between him and President Ho Chi Minh.
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| President Kim Il-sung welcomed President Ho Chi Minh to visit North Korea in July 1957. Based on their good relationship, President Ho Chi Minh visited North Korea in December 1957, met with Kim Il Sung and visited the nation’s industrial exhibition centers and farms. |
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| President Kim Il-sung and President Ho Chi Minh visited the Pyongyang textile factory. |
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| President Kim Il-sung and President Ho Chi Minh visited the kindergarten of the Pyongyang textile factory. |
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| President Kim Il-sung and President Ho Chi Minh visited the cooperative farm in North Korea. |
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| President Kim Il-sung and President Ho Chi Minh talked with farmers at a cooperative farm in North Korea. |
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| Two senior leaders visited the Kangson Steel Factory. |
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| President Ho Chi Minh delivered a speech before returning to Vietnam. He expressed his thanks for the warm welcome of North Korea’s leader Kim Il-sung. |
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| President Ho Chi Minh welcomed President Kim Il-sung to visit Vietnam from November 28 to December 3, 1958. In Vietnam, he visited the Nam Dinh Textile Factory, once the biggest of its kind in Indochina, in the northern province of Nam Dinh, as well as Tu Liem District in Hanoi, home to a friendship project between Vietnam and North Korea, an army school, and the Vietnam Military History Museum in Hanoi. |
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| President Kim Il-sung attended a banquet organized by President Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi. |
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| President Kim Il-sung visited Nam Dinh textile factory. |
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| President Kim Il-sung visited the cooperative in Hanoi. |
Photo courtesy of the Ho Chi Minh Museum
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