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NDC of DPRK Hosts Banquet

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

    Pyongyang, January 28 (KCNA) -- The National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea hosted a banquet Saturday evening on the occasion of the lunar New Year. 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, was present at the banquet.
    Also present there were Kim Il Chol, member of the NDC of the DPRK and minister of the People's Armed Forces, Pak Pong Ju, premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the C.C., the WPK, Kang Sok Ju, first vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Ri Kwang Ho, department director of the C.C., the WPK, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Ri Yong Chol, Jang Song Thaek and Ri Jae Il, first vice-department directors of the C.C., the WPK, Kim Yang Gon, councilor of the NDC of the DPRK, Kim Yong Il, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and Kim Thae Jong, vice-director of the International Department of the C.C., the WPK.
    Present there on invitation were Wu Donghe, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of the Chinese embassy and Chinese technicians and specialists active at the Taean Friendship Glass Factory.
    When Kim Jong Il appeared in the banquet hall, all the participants enthusiastically welcomed him with thunderous applause. A staff member of the Chinese embassy here presented him with a bunch of flowers and offered him New Year's greetings.
    He congratulated the staff members of the Chinese embassy on the lunar New Year and had a warm conversation with them. Recollecting the unforgettable days of his recent visit to China, he once again extended thanks to General Secretary Hu Jintao and other party and state leading officials of China for according him cordial hospitality with utmost sincerity.
    He extended regards to Hu Jintao, general secretary of the C.C., the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, leading officials of the party and state of China and all the Chinese people on the occasion of the lunar New Year and sincerely wished the hard-working Chinese people greater success in all work in the new year, too under the leadership of the CPC.
    Wu Donghe offered Kim Jong Il lunar New Year's greetings on behalf of the central collective leadership with Hu Jintao as general secretary and all the Chinese people.
    All the staff members of the embassy expressed profound thanks to Kim Jong Il for having kindly invited them to this meaningful banquet arranged on the occasion of the lunar New Year and paid high tribute to him for making an immortal contribution to strengthening and developing the unbreakable DPRK-China friendship provided and brought into bloom by the leaders of the old generation of the two countries. Choe Thae Bok and Wu Donghe made speeches at the banquet.
    It proceeded in an amicable atmosphere overflowing with friendship.
    Kim Jong Il had a photograph taken with the Chinese guests present at the banquet.