The DPRK-China friendship is blossoming with each passing day thanks to the deep care and energetic activities of the top leaders of the two countries, a bylined article of it says, and goes on:

China is now witnessing a great phase of social progress and prosperity. Its people are stepping up their advance for attaining the high goal of the socialist modernization drive with Chinese characteristics under the guidance of the Communist Party of China with Hu Jintao as its general secretary. The Chinese party and people are working hard to build a comprehensively well-off society and achieve the complete reunification of China.

The Korean people rejoice as over their own over China's reality in which everything is going well and warmly hail it.

The solidity and unbreakable nature of the DPRK-China friendship have been clearly proved in the severe tests and ordeals of history.

General Secretary Kim Jong Il paid several visits to China in the new century, injecting great vitality into the DPRK-China friendship. These bonds serve as a model in the development of the international relations of friendship and cooperation based on true sense of obligation and solidarity.

The Workers' Party of Korea and the Korean people will as ever make every effort to steadily develop the friendship as required by the developing reality in the new century.