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Speech of Kim Jong Il at Banquet

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 22 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made a speech at a banquet given in honor of him by Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and president of the People's Republic of China. He said in his speech:
    I have come to Beijing to express our regards to the new CPC collective leadership including Comrade Hu Jintao newly elected at the 16th Congress of the CPC.
    I would like to express deep thanks to Comrade Hu Jintao and other Chinese comrades for the cordial hospitality they have accorded to us from the moment we arrived in Beijing.
    Availing myself of this significant occasion, I warmly congratulate the new CPC collective leadership including Comrade Hu Jintao again on behalf of the WPK Central Committee, the Central Military Commission of the WPK and the National Defence Commission of the DPRK.
    In a year or little more, the new CPC leadership headed by Comrade Hu Jintao has made a signal success in the efforts for accomplishing the grand cause of great prosperity of the Chinese nation in the new century, a goal set forth at the 16th Congress of the Party. The international prestige and influence of the PRC have been increased considerably.
    The new CPC collective leadership including Comrade Hu Jintao have further strengthened and developed the CPC as a party serving the people, while sharing life and death, sweets and bitters with the people in the principles of people first and governance for the people, thus enjoying unquestioned support and trust, warm love and respect from all the Chinese people.
    We fully support the cause of the CPC and sincerely hope that greater achievements will be made in the future in the building of socialism with Chinese characteristics under the leadership of the CPC led by Comrade Hu Jintao.
    We are greatly inspired by the new CPC leadership carrying forward the traditions of the revolutionary forerunners in attaching importance to DPRK-China friendship, while treasuring it so much.
    It is the common will of the two parties and the two peoples to further strengthen and develop the bilateral friendship tested and established in all storms of history.