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Message of Greetings from Chinese Party and State Leaders

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, September 9 (KCNA) -- A message of greetings came to Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK 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, from Chinese President Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the PRC National People's Congress, and Wen Jiabao, premier of the State Council of PRC, on Thursday on the occasion of the 57th anniversary of the DPRK. The message said:
    We, on behalf of the Communist Party and the government of China and the Chinese people, extend warm congratulations and best wishes to you and, through you, to the Workers' Party of Korea, the government of the DPRK and the fraternal Korean people on the occasion of the 57th anniversary of the DPRK.
    The foundation of the DPRK meant a declaration that the Korean people became the masters of the country to greet a new era of building a socialist state. The Korean people have made sustained efforts in single-minded unity under the leadership of President Kim Il Sung and General Secretary Kim Jong Il and the Workers' Party of Korea, registering great successes in socialist revolution and construction, inter-Korean relations and external exchange. We are sincerely rejoiced over them and wish the Korean people steady fresh successes in all their future work.
    The traditional Sino-DPRK friendship has grown stronger and steadily developed with the trend of history thanks to the common efforts exerted by the parties, governments and peoples of the two countries.
    It is our hope that we together with the Korean side will steadily boost the friendship and cooperation and exchange in different fields in the spirit of inheriting tradition, facing up to the future, building good neighborly friendship and strengthening cooperation in conformity with the new historical period and new international situation to make the Sino-DPRK friendship more vital and bring greater happiness to the peoples of the two countries.
    We wish the DPRK prosperity and its people happiness.