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Year of Epochal Significance in DPRK-China Friendship

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) -- This is a historic year in which the DPRK-China friendship has strengthened still further. The unofficial visit of leader Kim Jong Il to China in April marked a new milestone in the development of the bilateral friendship.
    During the visit, he met and had talks with Hu Jintao.
    At the talks, held in a cordial and friendly atmosphere, the two leaders exchanged their views and reached a consensus on the issue of further developing the relations between the two parties and two countries and important international issues of common concern.
    The deeply rooted friendship between the DPRK and China has been carried forward by their leaders through generations.
    President Kim Il Sung, along with Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, provided the historic foundation of the DPRK-China friendship and developed it with a strong sense of revolutionary obligation and fraternity.
    Kim Jong Il's unofficial visit demonstrated the steadfast will of the Workers' Party and government of Korea to further develop the friendship with China.
    The mutual visits of high-level delegations of the two countries this year have further cemented the bilateral relations.
    A DPRK delegation headed by Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, paid an official goodwill visit to China in October which marked the 55th anniversary of the opening of the diplomatic relations between the two countries. This once again demonstrated the invariable stand of the Party and government of Korea to carry forward the friendship.
    A delegation of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China led by Wang Jiarui, head of the department visited the DPRK in January, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and his party in March and a party and government delegation of China headed by Li Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the C.C., CPC, in September.
    The two countries also exchanged delegations of various levels in the political, economic, military and cultural fields, deepening the bilateral friendship.
    The Chinese government has donated the Taean Friendship Glass Factory and other things to the DPRK this year.