A reception was given by the Chinese embassy in Pyongyang on August 20 to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.

Present there at invitation were Choe Ryong Hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea, first vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly, Sung Jong Gyu, minister of Culture, Mun Song Hyok, deputy department director of the WPK Central Committee, Pak Myong Ho, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Ryu Un Hae, vice-minister of External Economic Relations, and officials concerned.

Also invited to the reception were members of the diplomatic corps in Pyongyang.

Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, staff members of his embassy and Chinese guests staying in Pyongyang were on hand.

Wang Yajun made a speech at the reception.

He said that the victory in the unprecedentedly arduous anti-Japanese war is a great victory not only of the Chinese people but also of the world people loving peace and justice.

Noting that the China-DPRK friendship was provided in the flames of the bloody revolutionary struggle, he stressed that Comrade Kim Il Sung, the great leader of the Korean people and a close friend of the Chinese people, made a great contribution to the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression by waging a death-defying struggle with the Japanese aggressors, together with the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army.

It is the steadfast policy of the Chinese party and government to successfully defend, consolidate and develop the traditional China-DPRK friendship at all times, he said, expressing the readiness to thoroughly implement the important common understanding made by the top leaders of China and the DPRK and thus advance the socialist cause of the two countries and to make a contribution to the happiness of the peoples of the two countries and global peace and stability.

Then, Sung Jong Gyu made a speech.

He paid high tribute to the forerunners of the two countries who sacrificed their youth and lives without hesitation in the sacred anti-Japanese war, and said that the victory in the anti-Japanese war was a world historic event that brought to a close the Second World War with the victory of the world anti-fascist democratic forces and made a great contribution to forming a main current with independence and peace in international relations.

He said that the DPRK will make joint efforts together with the Chinese comrades to steadily develop the friendly and cooperative relations forged on the road of accomplishing the cause of anti-imperialist independence and socialism true to the noble intention of the top leaders of the two parties and the two countries.

He hoped that the Chinese people would achieve fresher successes in the course of realizing the dream of prosperity of the Chinese nation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China with General Secretary Xi Jinping as its core in the future, too.

The participants in the reception toasted the good health of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un and the esteemed Comrade Xi Jinping and the better development of the DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relations.

Earlier, the Chinese consul general in Chongjin hosted a photo exhibition and a reception.