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Chinese Defense Minister on Sino-Korean Friendship

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Beijing, November 4 (KCNA) -- It is the firm stand of the party and government of China to further develop the Sino-Korean friendship, and the cooperative ties between the two armies will grow stronger in the future, too, for the sake of the blood-sealed bilateral friendship. Chinese Defense Minister Cao Gangchuan, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, said this when meeting with the DPRK delegation headed by Kim Sang Ik, vice-minister of the People's Armed Forces, on Nov. 4 which was participating in the security policy meeting of the ASEAN Regional Forum in Beijing.
    The two countries are maintaining the special and long-standing friendly ties, he said, adding that the friendship provided by President Kim Il Sung and the leaders of the elder generation of China is unbreakable as it stood all tests of history.
    The Chinese people are pleased with the fact that the DPRK, a friendly neighbor, is successfully building a great prosperous powerful nation under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, he noted.