North Korea claims Belarus promises to "expand cooperation"

He wrote about this in a letter to DPRK leader Kim Jong-un, Reuters reports.

"I affirm that I will work to further expand cooperation with the DPRK to make it full of new content, and common programmes of giving mutual benefits to the improved well-being of the peoples of our countries," Lukashenko said in the letter.

The news agency reminds that Belarusian Foreign Minister Maksim Rizhenko visited North Korea this week, where he met with high-ranking officials and his counterpart Choe Son Hui. At the time, the North Korean foreign minister stressed the "comprehensively boosting relations" between Russia and the DPRK to "open a new era."

• On April 17, it was reported that Deputy Foreign Minister of Belarus Yevgeny Shestakov visited the North Korean capital Pyongyang.