Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un , General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, received the party and government delegation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) led by Li Hongzhong, Member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chinese National People’s Congress, on July 28.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly received the members of the delegation and had a souvenir picture taken with them.

He had a talk with them in a warm atmosphere.

Expressing once again his deep gratitude to respected Comrade Xi Jinping for having dispatched a party and government delegation, bearing his personal letter with best wishes, to the significant celebrations of the victory common to the DPRK and China, Comrade Kim Jong Un extended his heartfelt thanks to the Communist Party of China, the PRC government and all the Chinese people for having supported our revolutionary war at the cost of their blood, and for their invariable support for the just cause of the WPK and the Korean people.

He said that the Korean people would always remember and praise the militant feats and historic contributions made by the service personnel of the Chinese People’s Volunteers: They established the excellent tradition of winning victories by dint of staunch anti-imperialist revolutionary spirit and revolutionary unity through heroic struggles in the same trench with the Korean army, and in the hardest time for the DPRK.

Rejoiced over the world-startling achievements made by the party and government of China in the new course of comprehensive building of a modern socialist country with the Chinese characteristics and over the ever-strengthening international position of the PRC, he expressed his conviction that the fraternal Chinese party and people would surely realize the Chinese nation’s dream of great prosperity under the wise leadership of Xi Jinping.

Reaffirmed at the talk was the stand of the parties and governments of the two countries to cope with the complicated international situation in a proactive manner and to steadily develop the friendship and comradely cooperation onto a new high level through close collaboration, both strategic and tactical, while dynamically accelerating the socialist construction.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un invited the members of the delegation to the reception.

Present there were Jo Yong Won and Choe Ryong Hae, Members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C., WPK, Ri Il Hwan and O Su Yong, Secretaries of the C.C., WPK, Choe Son Hui, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kim Song Nam, Department Director of the C.C., WPK, Kim Yo Jong, Vice Department Director of the C.C., WPK, and other officials concerned.

Kim Yo Jong and Li Hongzhong made speeches at the reception.

The reception proceeded in an amicable atmosphere overflowing with warm comradely and friendly feelings.