Today, as the balmy spring air blows in, the two peoples of the DPRK and China look back with fond memory on March six years ago that laid down a new landmark of friendship.

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un , General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), at the kind invitation of Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), President of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC, paid his historic first visit to China from March 25 – 28, 2018. It was a momentous occasion of an epoch-making significance in carrying forward and developing the traditional relations of friendship between the DPRK and China to the next generation.

During his stay, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un had talks with Comrade Xi Jinping where he exchanged in-depth views on important issues such as the development of the friendly DPRK-China relations. He also affirmed the common will of the two countries to firmly defend the socialist system and provide happiness and a promising future for the two peoples.

Each page of the history of the DPRK-China friendship is clearly marked with the world of comradely friendship between the preceding leaders of the two countries who worked hand-in-hand on the road to achieve a common cause.

President Kim Il Sung established the historic root of DPRK-China friendship with Comrades Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, and they, together, shattered the aggression and anti-socialist maneuvers of the imperialists. And through the exchange of visits with the preceding leaders of China, he firmed up the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries and bequeathed it to the two peoples of the DPRK and China.

Chairman Kim Jong Il carried forward the historic tradition of DPRK-China friendship established by President Kim Il Sung . Until the last days of his lifetime, he devoted all his heart and soul to developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.

Therefore, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un , in his speech delivered at the welcoming banquet hosted by Comrade Xi Jinping said that it is a firm stand of our Party and government to strengthen and develop onto a new level the DPRK-PRC relations of friendship, which were formed in the course of sacred common struggles for the socialist cause and maintained their original features despite all kinds of ordeals of history, true to the noble intentions of the preceding leaders.

In the speech delivered at the banquet, Comrade Xi Jinping also said that the traditional PRC-DPRK friendship is the unique one ever seen in the world that was forged in blood, and it provides a source of happiness for the peoples of two countries, just as an evergreen tree and an eternal spring. He stressed that both sides should treasure and add everlasting glory to the friendship, the valuable common asset, while firmly defending it.

In less than a year after the historic visit of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un to China, he had four rounds of significant meetings and talks with Comrade Xi Jinping to further strengthen and develop the traditional friendship between the DPRK and PRC as required by the new era and put the relations between the two Parties and the two countries onto a new strategic level.

The relations of friendship and genuine comradeship between the leaders of the two Parties and the two countries are the driving force which makes the friendship between the DPRK and PRC dynamically develop without being flinched by change of situation and any challenges.

On the occasion of the new year 2024 which marks the 75 th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the DPRK and PRC, respected Comrade Kim Jong Un exchanged congratulatory messages with Comrade Xi Jinping where he officially declared the start of the “year of the DPRK-China friendship”.

Under the personal leadership of respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Xi Jinping, the DPRK and PRC will continue to cope with the complicated international situation in a proactive manner and to steadily develop the friendship and comradely cooperation onto a new higher level through close collaboration, both strategic and tactical, while accelerating the socialist construction.