Message of Thanks to Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un from Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of C.C., CPC and President of PRC

The 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 a message of thanks from Comrade Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and president of the People’s Republic of China, on June ９.

The message reads as follows:

The respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un,

I, on behalf of the Chinese party, government and people and in the name of myself and my wife Prof. Peng Liyuan, express the warmest greetings and the most heartfelt thanks to you, Comrade General Secretary, and your wife Ri Sol Ju and to the Korean party, government and people as regards the successful state visit to the DPRK.

You, Comrade General Secretary, made sincere and detailed arrangements for the visit and the Korean party, government and people splendidly and enthusiastically welcomed the Chinese delegation.

This fully showed the deep friendship between the two parties and two countries of China and the DPRK.

I and you, Comrade General Secretary, made an in-depth exchange of views on the issues of mutual interest and achieved a series of important common understanding. It added the new contents of the times to the China-DPRK relations and showed the firm determination of both sides to add luster to the traditional friendship, promote development and prosperity together and defend peace and stability in the region and the rest of the world.

I am satisfied with the result of my visit.

The China-DPRK relations have already entered a new historic journey.

Looking ahead into the future, I am ready to, together with you, Comrade General Secretary, steadily and successfully defend, successfully consolidate and successfully develop the China-DPRK relations by taking hold of the trend of the times and on the basis of the fundamental and long-term interests of the two countries, and thus make a new and greater contribution to the progressive work for promoting powerful advance of the socialist cause of the two countries, providing the peoples of the two countries with better welfare and achieving the global peace and development.

I am looking forward to meeting you, Comrade General Secretary, again.

I sincerely hope that you, Comrade General Secretary, would enjoy good health and your work go well.

I hope that the China-DPRK friendship would be handed down generation after generation and evergreen forever.

Rodong Sinmun