Park Chan Kyon, a journalist in the Republic of Korea who worked for French news agency AFP for 35 years, has expressed his admiration for late President Ho Chi Minh’s endless love for the Vietnamese people.
Hanoi (VNA) - Park Chan Kyon, a journalist in the Republic of Korea who worked for French news agency AFP for 35 years, has expressedhis admiration for late President Ho Chi Minh’s endless love for the Vietnamesepeople.
Park told the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) that helearned about President Ho from his father’s stories about a leader who devotedhis life and efforts to national independence and reunification.
After reading books on the President, thejournalist decided to travel to Vietnam with his wife after Vietnam and theRepublic of Korea (RoK) established diplomatic ties in 1992.
President Ho is the symbol of the relentless strugglesfor national independence and the reunification of the Vietnamese people, hestressed.
He cited documents newly found in Paris as saying thatthe President had befriended some Korean Provisional Government officials in1920.
The Vietnamese leader took a long trip from Chongqingto Shanghai (China) to meet his Korean friends and congratulate them after theKorean Peninsula was liberated from the Japanese fascists at the end of WorldWar II, he added.
A Korean who loves Vietnam, Park wants to joinVietnamese people in celebrating President Ho’s 130th birthday (May 19), hesaid.
Vice president for the Americas and the Caribbean from the International DemocraticWomen's Federation, Elizabeth Tortosa, who is the wife of secretary-general of theCommunist Party of Venezuela Jesus Faria Tortosa, shared her memoryabout her meeting with President Ho Chi Minh in 1965.
Elizabeth arrived in Vietnam as part of a campaign for the release ofher husband who was in bad health in prison. She recalled that during themeeting with President Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, the President inquired about herhusband’s health and expressed his support of the solidarity campaign for hisrelease.
“I was impressed by the simple style, the wisdom and the revolutionarymodesty of the President,” Elizabeth said.
According to her, the meeting was one of the biggest political lessonsfor her, and President Ho Chi Minဣh was among great revolutionary leaders of the20th century. /.
The people of the Soviet Union in the past and Russia at present always hold special sentiments for late President Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Ambassador to Russia Ngo Duc Manh has affirmed.
A delegation of the Party Central Committee, the State President, the National Assembly, the Government, and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee on May 18 paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh on the occasion of the late President’s 130th birthday (May 19, 1890-2020).
Artistic Director and founder of Bangladesh’s Turongomi Repertory Dance Theatre Pooja Sengupta shared the Bangladeshi people’s sentiment for President Ho Chi Minh while the Ciudad Caracas newspaper of Venezuela highlighted the late leader’s enormous contributions to Vietnam’s revolution in recent articles.
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President Ho Chi Minh (File photo) 
