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A reception was given at Yanggakdo International Hotel on July 16 to mark the 65th anniversary of the conclusion of the DPRK-China Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.

Present there were the Party and government delegation of the People’s Republic of China on an official goodwill visit to the DPRK.

Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and premier of the Cabinet, made a speech at the reception.

He said that the visit to the DPRK by the Party and government delegation of the PRC marked a significant occasion in splendidly commemorating the 65th anniversary of the conclusion of the DPRK-China Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance and demonstrating the strategic character of the treaty and the vitality of the DPRK-China friendship.

Saying that the friendship has entered a new stage of development in various fields under the direct guidance of the top leaders of the two parties and two countries, he expressed the steadfast stand of the WPK and the DPRK government to steadily strengthen and develop the friendly and cooperative relations with socialism as the core.

He stressed that the Korean people will advance hand in hand with the Chinese comrades as ever in the course of actively promoting the co-prosperity of the two countries and new development of friendship, opposing hegemony and victoriously advancing the socialist cause.

Next, Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, made a speech.

He said that the treaty is an important legal foundation for the development of the bilateral friendly relations and that the peoples of the two countries have shared life and death and formed great militant friendship at the cost of blood in the struggle for achieving national independence and the liberation of the countries.

It is a vivid feature of the China-DPRK relations to support and cooperate with each other, share destiny and protect and help each other, he noted, adding that Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping and Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un met on seven occasions to lead the traditional China-DPRK friendship to open a new chapter of history.

He said that the Chinese Party and government are steadfast in their stand to place great importance on the friendship and that their firm support for the cause of Korean socialism led by Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un will remain unchanged, adding that the Chinese side will, together with the DPRK side, ensure that the baton of friendship is handed down through generations by holding aloft the banner of socialism.

The participants in the reception toasted the eternal DPRK-China friendship and prosperity of the two countries.

A performance was given by the ensemble of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK.

The reception proceeded in a comradely and friendly atmosphere.