Comrade Kim Jong Un , General Secretary of WPK and President of State Affairs of DPRK, Has Talks with Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of Central Committee of CPC and President of PRC
Date: 09/06/2026 | Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (EN) | Read original version at source
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), had talks with Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China(CPC) and President of the People's Republic of China(PRC), on June 8.
Comrade Kim Jong Un came to the Kumsusan State Guesthouse to exchange warm greetings with Comrade Xi Jinping and had a photo session against the background of the national flags of the two countries.
Present at the talks from the DPRK side were Kim Jae Ryong and Ri Il Hwan, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Song Nam, member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee and Director of the International Department of the WPK Central Committee, Choe Son Hui, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the DPRK, No Kwang Chol, Minister of National Defence of the DPRK, and Kim Tok Hun, first vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet.
Present from the Chinese side were Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, member of the Secretariat and Director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau and Director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Liu Haixing, head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, Tang Fangyu, Director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee, Dong Jun, Minister of National Defence of the PRC, Zheng Shanjie, head of the National Development and Reform Commission of the PRC, Wang Wentao, Minister of Commerce of the PRC, and other entourage members and Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.
Comrade Kim Jong Un warmly welcomed Comrade Xi Jinping, who has visited Pyongyang in seven years as the most important state guest, saying that his visit to Pyongyang as the first foreign trip for this year was an expression of paying top priority to the DPRK-China friendship as well as the most encouraging support to the Korean people.
Pyongyang deems it as its honour, he said adding his current visit will mark an important occasion of showing once again that the DPRK and China have always stood together on the right side of history for independence and justice and that their relations are definitely solid as they have stood the trials of history under any international upheavals.
Mentioning the immutability and invincibility of the DPRK-China relationship which is special in terms of the tradition of friendship, the common cause of socialism and the invariable inheritance, Comrade Kim Jong Un spoke highly of the fact that the exchanges and cooperation between the two countries have been dynamically promoted in various aspects since the Beijing summit in September, 2025.
He affirmed that the WPK and the DPRK government will as ever maintain the DPRK-China friendship as the most important top-priority strategic work and do their utmost to strengthen the bilateral relations into a model of the relationship between socialist states and into a special, genuine and solid strategic relationship which can never change and that this is our immutable choice and will.
Our party, government and people are rejoiced over the fact that the Chinese party, government and people have achieved great world-startling successes in building a modern socialist country and raised their international position to the absolute height under the wise guidance of Comrade Xi Jinping, he said, stating that, no matter how the situation may change, our party and government will fully support the policy and stand of the Chinese party and government to defend the core interests on the "one-China" principle.
Expressing the impressions of his revisit to beautiful Pyongyang, Comrade Xi Jinping said he was pleased that in recent years Comrade Kim Jong Un has made important achievements, guiding the Korean-style socialism.
He said that the Chinese party and government will remain unchanged in their firm stand to place great importance on the traditional China-DPRK friendship, their firm support to the socialist cause of the DPRK led by Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un and their firm determination to defend the common interests of the both sides and good strategic environment no matter how the international situation may change.
He expressed his willingness to promote greater advance of the China-DPRK relations along with the times by providing a blueprint for the development of the China-DPRK relations in the new era together with Comrade Kim Jong Un , with his visit as an opportunity, and by steadily boosting exchange and cooperation and thus make a positive contribution to accomplishing the socialist cause of the two countries and advancing the wellbeing of the two peoples and promoting peace, stability and prosperity in the region and the rest of the world.
The top leaders of the DPRK and China sincerely exchanged the experiences gained in party- and state-building in the course of advancing the socialist cause and discussed important issues for putting the traditional DPRK-China friendly and cooperative relations on a more solid basis.
They also agreed to hold celebrations, further strengthen the strategic communication through high-level visits between the two parties and two countries and expand and develop exchanges and cooperation in political, economic, cultural and other fields on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the conclusion of the DPRK-China Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, so as to open a new chapter of the development of the DPRK-China relations.
During the talks they exchanged views on international and regional issues, discussed the issues for boosting the strategic coordination and cooperation between the two parties and two countries, firmly defending the sovereignty, security, development interests of the two countries and jointly defending peace and development in the region and the rest of the world despite the complexity of the world political situation, and reached a satisfactory consensus on them.
The talks took place in a comradely and friendly atmosphere.
The Pyongyang talks between 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, and Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, marked a historic occasion of clearly demonstrating the invincibility of the DPRK-China friendship which has steadily developed in the common struggle for accomplishing the socialist cause and laying a new milestone for the development of the strategic cooperative relations between the two parties and two countries.
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