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Kim Jong Il's China Visit Hailed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 24 (KCNA) -- Papers here today say that leader Kim Jong Il's China visit will be recorded with brilliance forever in the history of the DPRK-China friendship. Rodong Sinmun editorially stresses that his historic China visit clearly testifies to the indestructibility and invincibility of the DPRK-China friendship and offered a historic occasion in laying a strong foundation for developing the friendship generation after generation.
    The editorial continues:
    During his visit Kim Jong Il paid tribute to the new collective leadership of the Communist Party of China including Comrade Hu Jintao, deepened friendship and confidence in it and provided a new landmark for developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the DPRK and China.
    Kim Jong Il noted that he would exert fresh efforts to inherit the tradition of close cooperation between the two parties and the two countries and steadily boost the bilateral friendly relations.
    Hu Jintao said that China's new collective leadership sets great store by the Sino-DPRK friendship fostered with care by the leaders of the elder generations of the two countries and expressed its position to steadily boost it.
    Kim Jong Il's China visit encouraged the Korean people in their drive to build a great prosperous powerful nation and in their courageous struggle to defend socialism with persevering will and conviction of sure victory and greatly contributed to ensuring peace and security on the Korean peninsula and the rest of Asia.
    Both sides unanimously agreed to maintain their stand to seek a peaceful negotiated settlement of the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula, promote with joint efforts the process of the six-way talks and contribute to the eventual peaceful settlement of the nuclear issue.
    Kim Jong Il's China visit was, indeed, a historic event as it opened up a new chapter in strengthening and developing the DPRK-China friendship and consolidating the unbreakable unity between the two parties and the two peoples.
    The paper notes that the new collective leadership of China has made great successes in accomplishing the cause of building socialism with Chinese characteristics by uniting all the Chinese and leading them, guided by the thought of "Three represents" and on the principles of "People first and governance for the people".
    It goes on:
    The Chinese people are now working hard to attain the strategic target of building a comprehensively well-off society by the year 2020 according to the decision made at the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of China.
    The Korean people fully support the fraternal Chinese people in their effort to achieve socialist modernization and the reunification of the country.
    The Chinese Party and people's sincere support to the just cause of the DPRK encourages the Korean people.
    The Workers' Party of Korea and the people of the DPRK will make positive efforts to let the DPRK-China friendship demonstrate its tremendous vitality on a new higher stage full of vigor and viability in the new century, too.
    Minju Joson in an editorial expresses the belief that the DPRK-China friendship will grow stronger and develop in accordance with the desire and will of the two parties and the two peoples in the future, too.