North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message to Chinese President Xi Jinping congratulating him over the 75th anniversary of China’s founding.
North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun reported on Tuesday that Kim sent his message to coincide with China’s National Day.
Kim stressed that it is the “consistent stand” of the Workers’ Party and the North Korean government to “steadily consolidate and develop the traditional” friendship between the two countries.
He said, “I believe that the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries will grow stronger in conformity with the requirements of the new era.”
China and North Korea have designated 2024 as the year of their friendship.
But South Korean media reported that North Korea’s relations with China have cooled somewhat following Pyongyang’s growing closeness with Moscow since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.