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Congratulatory Message to Kim Jong Il from Hu Jintao

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

    Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il received a congratulatory message from Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, on the occasion of the 60th birthday of the Workers' Party of Korea. I on behalf of the Central Committee of the CPC and all its members and on my own behalf send sincere congratulations to you and, through you, to the Central Committee of the WPK, all its members and Korean people on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the WPK, the message said, and continued: The WPK is a revolutionary party of the proletariat which was personally founded and led by the great leader of the Korean people Comrade Kim Il Sung and which has a long history of revolutionary struggle.
    Over the last six decades the WPK has led the heroic Korean people to wage an arduous struggle for overcoming manifold hardships and difficulties. It set up a people's government and has defended the sovereignty and dignity of the country and achieved steady fresh successes in the cause of the socialist revolution and construction and made a positive contribution to defending the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula and the rest of the region and promoting the development of the progressive cause of humankind.
    In recent years the Korean people have bravely overcome difficulties in the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude under the leadership of the WPK headed by you General Secretary and dynamically advanced on the road of building a great prosperous powerful nation, actively seeking a way of development suitable to the actual conditions of Korea, and achieved praiseworthy progress in the improvement of the inter-Korean relations and in the development of external relations.
    The CPC and the Chinese people sincerely rejoice over the successes achieved by the WPK and the Korean people in different fields. It is our belief that the Korean people will continue to make fresh and greater successes in different fields such as building socialism of Korean style, achieving the independent and peaceful reunification of the country and developing their external relations under your leadership. The traditional Sino-DPRK friendship requires us to set greatest store by it and hand it down generation after generation and, furthermore, steadily develop it, exploring a new way by carrying forward the historic cause as it is precious wealth bequeathed to us by the leaders of the elder generation. This is line with the common desire and fundamental interests of the two parties, two countries and two peoples and favorable for defending regional peace and stability.
    The CPC has always valued the traditional Sino-DPRK friendship.
    It is the steadfast policy of our party to steadily consolidate and develop the Sino-DPRK friendship.
    We would like to steadily boost the Sino-DPRK friendship to a new higher stage together with the Korean comrades in the spirit of "inheriting tradition, facing up to the future, building good neighborly friendship and strengthening cooperation".
    It is our sincere hope that the Sino-DPRK friendship will advance with the times and will be carried forward generation after generation.