Over the last 20 years, Viet Nam has harvested significant achievements in every aspect of economy, politics, culture and society. She has fulfilled well her role as a responsible member with positive contributions in all international and regional organizations. On her development march, Vietnam puts the top priority on solving social issues, hunger -elimination, poverty-alleviation, social justice and environmental matters in order to ensure sustainable development. Vietnam is striving to become basically a modern, industrialized country by 2020.
Viet Nam and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea enjoy their traditional relations of friendship, cooperation, solidarity, reciprocal support and assistance. They formally established their diplomatic relations in January, 1950. In recent years, the friendship and cooperation between the two countries have seen important developments and both countries are committed to elevate their bilateral ties to a higher plane in the interest of the two peoples, for peace, stability and development in the region and whole world.