His visit to China was an epochal event of weighty significance in boosting the DPRK-China friendship generation after generation, defending the peace and stability in Northeast Asia and the rest of the world and more confidently advancing the socialist cause, the human cause of independence, the statement said.

It praised him as a distinguished leader in the present times who is steering the development of not only the traditional DPRK-China friendly relations but the international relations and the most veteran political elder and peerlessly great man who is pushing forward the triumphant advance of the human cause of independence.

It sincerely wished the Korean people bigger success in the struggle to build a thriving nation and reunify the country independently and peacefully under his leadership.