Something's in the Wind?

N.Korea Praises Vietnamese, Chinese Reforms

North Korea has been paying lip service to reforms in China and Vietnam in recent days. The president of North Korea's rubberstamp parliament on Tuesday expressed hope that Vietnam will share its experience in socioeconomic construction and development. Kim Yong-nam was speaking in a meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Hanoi.

The English-language Viet Nam News on Wednesday quoted Kim as saying, "The achievements the country had made in socioeconomic development and national construction were an encouragement to [North Korea] in its national construction and development process." (Click title for full article.)