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Message of Greetings from Chinese Leaders

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People's Assembly, and Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, received a message of greetings on Wednesday from Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of China, Jiang Zemin, chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China, and Wen Jiabao, premier of the State Council of China, on the occasion of the 56th birthday of the DPRK. The message said:
    We extend sincere congratulations and best wishes to you, and, through you, to the Workers' Party of Korea, the DPRK government and the fraternal Korean people on behalf of the Communist Party of China, and the Chinese government and people on the occasion of the 56th founding anniversary of the DPRK.
    The founding of the DPRK enabled the Korean people to become the master of the country and embark on the bright road of building a new socialist state.
    The Korean people achieved great successes in the drive to carry out the cause of socialist revolution and construction, improve the north-south relations and defend the peace in Northeast Asia under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung, General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the Workers' Party of Korea, drawing the attention of the world people.
    The Chinese people are sincerely rejoiced over this.
    We are watching with great pleasure the steady consolidation and development of the traditional Sino-Korean friendship thanks to the common efforts of the two parties, the two countries and the two peoples.
    We hope to record a new page of Sino-Korean friendship with the Korean comrades by steadily boosting the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties, the two countries and the two peoples according to the spirit of inheriting the tradition, orienting to the future, preserving the good-neighborliness and friendship and strengthening cooperation in the new historic period and under the international situation.
    We wish the DPRK prosperity and its people happiness.