The official establishment of the diplomatic relations marked an epochal event and landmark in boosting the bilateral cooperative relations and the friendly ties between the peoples of the two countries, the article says, and goes on:

The DPRK and Syria have waged a common struggle in the same trench of the anti-imperialist struggle to protect the sovereignty of the countries and global peace and security.

This is a clear proof that the bilateral relations of friendship and cooperation forged and cultivated by the great leaders with much care remain very strong.

Though the old generation and century are replaced by the new ones, the DPRK-Syria friendship is steadily growing stronger true to the behests of the great preceding leaders.

The Syrian people are expressing positive support and solidarity for the service personnel and people of the DPRK in the struggle to bring earlier the final victory of the cause of the Juche revolution by upholding the Party's Songun politics and line of simultaneously developing the two fronts in defiance of the U.S. imperialists' moves to stifle the DPRK.

The service personnel and people of the DPRK send invariable support and firm solidarity to the Syrian government and people in their just struggle to beat back the invasion and terrorism by the hostile forces at home and abroad and ensure the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.

The DPRK government and people will as ever stand by the Syrian government and people in their joint struggle for independence against imperialism.