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DPRK Military Delegation Meets Chang Youxia

Pyongyang, August 19 (KCNA) -- A military delegation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) led by Army General Kim Su Gil, director of the General Political Bureau of the Korean People's Army, on a visit to China met and had a talk with Chang Youxia, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China (PRC), at the August 1 Building in Beijing on Saturday.

Chang Youxia warmly welcomed the DPRK military delegation on behalf of the Central Military Commission of the PRC and said that the delegation's current visit is of weighty significance in bilateral exchange.

He said that the friendly relations between China and the DPRK, common precious wealth provided by the leaders of the elder generation of the two countries, open a new historic chapter thanks to the four China visits by Chairman Kim Jong Un and the DPRK visit by General Secretary Xi Jinping.

He stressed that it is a consistent and firm policy of China to further consolidate and excellently develop China-DPRK relations.

Then the DPRK military delegation was invited to a reception hosted by the vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the PRC.

That day, the DPRK military delegation met with Song Tao, head of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.