Chinese Defence Minister Meets KPA Delegation
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Beijing, April 22 (KCNA) -- Colonel General Liang Guanglie, minister of National Defence of China, met and had a friendly talk with a delegation of the Air Force of the Korean People's Army led by Colonel General Ri Pyong Chol, commander of the Air Force, at "August 1" building in Beijing on April 22.
On hand were Ambassador Choe Jin Su and the military attache of the DPRK embassy in Beijing and Colonel General Xu Qiliang, commander of the Headquarters of the Air Force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
The defence minister said that the two countries are friendly neighbors linked by the same mountain and river and China-DPRK friendship was forged with blood in the course of the protracted revolutionary struggle.
The bilateral friendship President Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people, provided together with revolutionaries of the elder generation of China is deeply cherished by the servicepersons and people of the two countries, he said, adding:
The mutual visits paid by top leaders of the two countries laid a solid foundation for the development of the bilateral relations.
General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited China several times in the new century and shortly ago he visited the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang.
Comrade Jiang Zemin and President Hu Jintao, too, visited the DPRK.
He referred to the brisk exchanges between the two armies including visits by high-ranking officers in the past, hoping that the China-DPRK friendly relations would grow stronger in the future.
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