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DPRK Government Gives Banquet

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

    Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- The Government of the DPRK gave a banquet at the People's House of Culture Sunday on the occasion of the commissioning of the Taean Friendship Glass Factory. Present there on invitation were the government delegation of the People's Republic of China headed by Wu Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and vice-premier of the State Council of the PRC, Wu Donghe, Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of the Chinese embassy, Teng Fuquan, general director of the Yaohua Glass Group Corporation of China, and its cadres and Chinese technicians and workers who participated in the construction of the factory.
    Present there were Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Vice Marshal of the KPA Kim Il Chol, minister of the People's Armed Forces, Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the C.C., WPK, Yang Hyong Sop, vice-president of the Presidium of the SPA of the DPRK, Jon Sung Hun, vice-premier of the Cabinet, officials concerned, and servicepersons of the KPA and construction workers who participated in the building of the factory.
    Kim Yong Nam said in his speech at the banquet the fact that a modern glass factory has been successfully built and the government delegation of the PRC came to the DPRK to hail its commissioning greatly encourages the Korean people and indicates that the Chinese party and government set greatest store by the DPRK-China friendship.
    He on behalf of the Korean people and the government of the Republic extended deep thanks to the Chinese party and government with Hu Jintao as general secretary for having provided free to the DPRK the glass factory furnished with latest equipment and to all Chinese comrades for having rendered sincere help in its construction.
    Through the construction of the factory the peoples of the two countries have powerfully demonstrated once again the vitality of the DPRK-China friendship consolidated and developed generation after generation and erected one more high tower of noble militant friendship and comradely confidence in the annals of the bilateral friendship, he noted, and continued:
    The Korean people will invariably value the traditional DPRK-China friendship and make positive efforts to develop it to be more vital. Wu Yi in her speech said that they are very pleased to note that the Korean people have achieved great successes in socialist construction and in the efforts to achieve the independent and peaceful reunification of the country in the spirit of self-reliance and fortitude under the leadership of the WPK headed by General Secretary Kim Jong Il.
    She went on to say: The factory symbolic of the Sino-Korean friendship was commissioned under the deep concern of the top leaders of the two countries. This marked another auspicious event in the development of the bilateral relations.
    It is the steadfast policy of the Chinese party and government to steadily consolidate and develop the traditional friendly relations between the two countries. We together with the Korean comrades will make positive efforts to boost the Sino-Korean friendship in the spirit of "inheriting tradition, facing up to the future, building good neighborly friendship and strengthening cooperation".