SEOUL — Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính's official visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) from June 30 to July 3 is expected to help consolidate political trust and deepen the strategic cooperation between the two nations, RoK Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has said.

In an interview granted to the Vietnam News Agency on the threshold of the visit, Han highlighted that the visits by high-ranking leaders of the two nations have contributed significantly to their close ties, elaborating Việt Nam and the RoK have built the world’s leading exemplary cooperative relations over the past 30 years and become important trade partners of each other with two-way trade amounting to nearly US$100 billion and expected to reach US$150 billion by 2030.

This is the first official trip by a high-ranking Vietnamese official since the two nation set up their comprehensive strategic partnership in 2022, he said, adding 2024 is the third consecutive year that high-level visits are arranged between the two countries which illustrate their close relationship.

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