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Kim Jong Il Meets Chinese Delegation

KCNA

    Pyongyang, January 19 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, Monday met the visiting delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China led by Wang Jiarui, head of the department who is alternate member of the Central Committee of the CPC. Present there were Ji Jae Ryong, vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.
    Wang Jiarui conveyed congratulations of leading officials of the Chinese party and state including Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the CPC and president of China, and Jiang Zemin, chairman of the Central Military Commission of China, to Kim Jong Il on the lunar New Year's Day.
    Kim Jong Il expressed thanks for this and asked him to transmit his New Year greetings to Hu Jintao, and Jiang Zemin and other leading officials of the Chinese party and state. He had a warm and friendly talk with Wang Jiarui.
    Kim Jong Il hosted a dinner in honor of the guests.
    The dinner proceeded in an amicable atmosphere.