Pyongyang, July 14 (KCNA)   

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The DPRK foreign minister sent letters to her counterparts of the People's Republic of Donetsk and the People's Republic of Lugansk on Wednesday.

In the letters, she informed them that the DPRK government decided to recognize the independence of the People's Republic of Donetsk and the People's Republic of Lugansk and expressed the will to develop the state-to-state relations with those countries in the idea of independence, peace and friendship.