On February 16, 2024, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel posted on his X social media account a remembrance of Kim Jong Il, on the occasion of the 82nd anniversary of the North Korean leader’s birth. Díaz-Canel wrote that we remember his legacy, and we send warm greetings to the Party, the government, and the noble people of the DPRK. The Cuban President also reaffirmed the historic relation of friendship and solidarity between Cuba and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Cuban Minister of Foreign Relations Bruno Rodríguez also posted on his X account. He described the relations of friendship, cooperation, and mutual support between the two countries as historic and invariable, based in the legacy of the fraternal relation between the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, and the great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung, as he is known in Korea, who was the father of Kim Jong Il.
The Cuban press reported on the postings in Prensa Latina and Granma. The