Xi to boost China-NK ties

Chinese President Xi Jinping vows to strengthen China's traditional friendship with North Korea in a signed article published in North Korean mainstream media including the flagship newspaper of the Workers' Party of Korea on Wednesday, one day before his two-day state visit to North Korea.

Xi, also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), in his article for Rodong Sinmun, called for new development in relations between China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in a new era to better benefit both peoples and promote regional as well as world peace, stability and prosperity.

China will unswervingly support Chairman Kim Jong-un in leading the DPRK to implement the new strategic line and focus on developing the economy and improving people's livelihoods for new and greater achievements in the socialist construction of the DPRK, Xi's article read.

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