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Message of Thanks to Kim Jong Il from Hu Jintao

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

    Pyongyang, October 30 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, received a message of thanks sent Sunday by Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People's Republic of China, upon successfully winding up his official goodwill visit to the DPRK. We were accorded warm welcome and cordial hospitality by Kim Jong Il and the party, government and people of the DPRK, the message said, and went on:
    I held warm and friendly talks with you and had a candid and in-depth exchange of views on the issue of boosting the friendly and cooperative relations between China and the DPRK under the new situation and international and regional issues of common concern and reached a common understanding of wide-ranging matters.
    I am very pleased with the success made by the visit and would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you, the party, government and people of the DPRK for having accorded cordial hospitality to us.
    The Chinese party, government and people set greatest store by the Sino-DPRK friendship and will steadily enrich the content of the bilateral friendship and cooperation together with the party, government and people of the DPRK in the spirit of inheriting the tradition, facing up to the future, building good neighborly friendship and strengthening cooperation and remain true to it and thus add a fresh chapter to the history of the Sino-DPRK friendship.