Castro, on First North Korea Visit, Stresses Solidarity

TOKYO —  Cuban President Fidel Castro has stressed solidarity with North Korea and renewed the third world’s call for a new international economic order, the North Korean Central News Agency said Sunday.

Castro spoke at a banquet given Saturday night in his honor by North Korean President Kim Il Sung shortly after arriving in Pyongyang on his first official visit, the agency, monitored here, said.

The two leaders held talks “in a comradely, sincere and friendly atmosphere,” the agency said.

Castro was quoted as saying that North Korea’s stand for peaceful reunification with the non-communist south and its stand against “the maneuvers and provocative acts committed by imperialists . . . are always assured of our strongest and firmest solidarity.”