Present there were Song Tao, head of the International Liaison Department of the C.C. CPC, Yang Zhenwu, secretary general of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC, and Li Jinjun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK, who are members of the party and government delegation of the PRC led by Li Zhanshu.

Supreme Leader of our Party, state and army Kim Jong Un gladly met with Li Zhanshu and other delegation members on a visit to the DPRK to attend the celebrations for the 70th birthday of the DPRK, and had a photo session with them before having a warm talk with them.

Li Zhanshu courteously handed over the personal letter of Xi Jinping to Kim Jong Un.

Kim Jong Un expressed deep thanks to Xi Jinping for sending warm and fine personal letter.

Li Zhanshu thanked Kim Jong Un for giving top priority to the delegation, according it special hospitality and personally meeting with it although he is so busy with the schedule of celebrations for the national day, and warmly congratulated the WPK, the government of the DPRK and all the Korean people on the 70th birthday of the DPRK upon authorization by Xi Jinping.

The Supreme Leader said that General Secretary Xi Jinping sent Li Zhanshu as his special envoy and the party and government delegation to the celebrations for the 70th founding anniversary of the DPRK, which served a great encouragement for the Korean people. He warmly welcomed the delegation's visit to the DPRK and extended warm greetings to Xi Jinping and the Chinese party, government and people.

The Supreme Leader said that it is the natural obligation of the party, government and people of the DPRK to greet with greatest sincerity the precious comrades from the friendly neighbor country which we most trust. The visit to the DPRK by Li Zhanshu, who is special envoy of Xi Jinping, at the time when the Korean people greet the greatest national holiday with great joy and pride will be an important occasion to demonstrate once again the invincible DPRK-China friendship developing favorably day by day in the new situation, he stated.

Noting that it is the firm option and immutable line of the Workers' Party of Korea and the DPRK government to steadily develop the DPRK-China friendship, the precious common treasure of the two countries, the Supreme Leader expressed his will to further boost high-level visits and deepen the strategic mutual understanding as already agreed with Xi Jinping in order to more firmly and profoundly develop the special and solid DPRK-China relations which no one can hurt.

Li Zhanshu said that the China-DPRK friendship forged and developed by the leaders of the elder generation of the two countries has been further deepened on the basis of the special intimacy of the supreme leaders of the two parties after overcoming changes of the regional situation and turns and twists of history, adding that invariable is the firm stand of the Chinese party and government to steadily and stably develop and accelerate the China-DPRK relations no matter how the international situation may change.

The Supreme Leader exchanged with Li Zhanshu candid views on the issue of developing the relations of the two parties and the two countries and the issues of mutual concern.

The talk proceeded in a friendly and amicable atmosphere all the time.