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Top leaders of China, DPRK hold talks in Beijing
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-01-18 20:44
Sino-DPRK traditional friendship is the common treasure
of the two parties, countries and peoples, said Hu. It is an unswerving
strategic guideline of the CPC and the Chinese government to consolidate and
develop bilateral good neighborly friendship and cooperation.
Hu Jintao (R), general secretary of the
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Chinese
President, shakes hands with Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the
Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the National Defense
Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), at the
Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on Jan. 17, 2006.
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Hu said the Chinese side will make joint efforts with the DPRK to
continuously inject new vigor and vitality into bilateral traditional friendship
and push forward the growth of bilateral good neighborly friendship and
cooperation so as to bring more benefits to the two countries and their peoples
and contribute more to the peace, stability and prosperity in Northeast Asia and
the world at large.
Kim expressed his thanks for Hu's invitation and hospitality and his pleasure
at meeting with Hu again after their meeting in Pyongyang in October last year.
Kim said the DPRK-China relationship has been cultivated by leaders of old
generations of the two countries and carried forward under the new
circumstances. The friendship has not only pushed forward the socialist
construction of the two countries, but also promoted peace and stability in the
Korean Peninsula, Northeast Asia and the world at large.
He said the WPK and the DPRK government will, as always, further explore
bilateral cooperative potentials in various fields,especially in the economic
field, conduct cooperation in the principles of meeting each other's needs,
reciprocity and win-win,and make every effort for the better development of
bilateral friendship.
Hu spoke positively of the DPRK's domestic construction and said the CPC and
the Chinese government and people sincerely hope for political stability,
economic prosperity and people's happiness in the DPRK, and are delighted to see
the DPRK's achievements in building a strong and prosperous country.
Hu said the Chinese side will, as always, support the WPK's, and the DPRK
government and people's active exploration of a development path conforming with
the country's own conditions.
He said he is convinced that the DPRK side will, under Kim's leadership, make
new achievements in building a strong and prosperous country with unity and
arduous work.
Kim said that under the leadership of the CPC, China has made great
achievements in socialist modernization construction with Chinese
characteristics and in the reform and opening-up drive.
He attributed China's remarkable development to the important thought of
Three Represents, concept of scientific development, and building a socialist
harmonious society. These guidelines and policies put forward by the CPC conform
with China's own conditions.
Kim said that during his visit in China, he witnessed the outstanding
achievements in various fields in South China, especially the special economic
zones. China's new look and vigorous development gave him a deep impression and
fully proves that China's reform and opening-up policy is correct.
He said the WPK and the DPRK government and people feel delighted with
China's development and congratulate China on the progress.
He said the DPRK firmly believes that the hard-working Chinesepeople will,
under the CPC's leadership with Hu as the general secretary, make new and
greater achievements in fulfilling the goal mapped out in the 11th Five-Year
Program, the building of a socialist well-off society with harmonious
development, and the great cause of realizing the reunification of the
motherland.
The two sides also briefed each other on the two countries' economic and
social development.
Senior Chinese officials Liu Qi, Wu Yi, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Guo
Boxiong, Zeng Peiyan, Wang Gang and Tang Jiaxuan accompanied Kim in the visit or
attended related activities.
Kim's entourage included the DPRK Premier Pak Bong Ju, and senior officials
with the DPRK's foreign ministry, the financial planning department and the
science and education department of the WPK Central Committee and the DPRK
cabinet.
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