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Chinese Ambassador Hosts Reception

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, October 7 (KCNA) -- Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, arranged a reception at the embassy Wednesday on the occasion of the 55th anniversary of the opening of diplomatic ties between the DPRK and the People's Republic of China. Recalling that China and the DPRK established diplomatic relations 55 years ago, the ambassador said it opened a new chapter of the good-neighborly and friendly relations between the two countries.
    Noting that the leaders of the two countries had made frequent mutual visits and the two peoples had lived in harmony like real brothers, he continued:
    The Chinese government and people have consistently supported the Korean people in their work for socialist construction.
    The Korean people have won one victory after another in the socialist revolution and construction, overcoming manifold difficulties in the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude under the wise guidance of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il.
    He expressed the belief that the heroic Korean people would achieve greater successes in building a great prosperous powerful socialist nation, developing external relations and accomplishing the cause of the country's reunification under the leadership of Kim Jong Il and the Workers' Party of Korea.
    Kwak Pom Gi, vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet, in his speech recalled that the two countries had closely supported and cooperated with each other in the struggle to attain common goals and steadily expanded and developed friendly and cooperative relations in various fields over the last 55 years since the opening of diplomatic ties.
    The historic meetings of the leaders of the two countries in recent years have served as a powerful impetus to the invariable consolidation and development of the friendly relations between the DPRK and China in the new century, he said, and continued:
    We feel glad over the achievements made by the fraternal Chinese people in the work of building a comprehensively well-off socialist society on an overall scale and achieving the complete reunification of the country under the correct guidance of the new collective leadership headed by Hu Jintao and sincerely wish them greater advance in the future.
    It is a consistent policy of the party and government of the DPRK to steadily boost the friendly relations between the DPRK and China. We will, in the future, too, make positive efforts with the Chinese comrades to expand and strengthen the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.
    Present at the reception on invitation were Kim Su Hak, minister of Public Health who is chairman of the Central Committee of the DPRK-China Friendship Association, Mun Jae Chol, acting chairman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, Pak Kyong Son, vice department director of the Central Committee of the WPK, and other officials concerned.
    Officials of the Chinese embassy here were on hand.