“If you’re a North Korean, you want to see this resolved. Until this day in North Korea, and in Vietnam at the time, relationships with foreigners are strictly forbidden. Five years later, in 1978, the Vietnamese chemical engineering institute Canh was attached to organized a trip to North Korea. He had brought with him a letter he had written to the North Korean leadership, begging for permission for them to marry. With North Korea on the side of Beijing and Phnom Penh, the couple stopped writing.

Source: bd News24 February 13, 2019 03:45 UTC