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Talks held between Int'l Department Director of WPK CC and Int'l Liaison Department Head of CPC CC
  Talks were held between Kim Song Nam, Alternate Member of the Political Bureau and Director of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, on a visit to China at the head of the delegation of the WPK, and Liu Jianchao, Head of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in Beijing on the 21st.
  Liu Jianchao asked the delegation head to convey the warm greetings and best wishes of Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, to Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
  Kim Song Nam introduced the successes made in the Party building and the cause for the overall development of socialism under the wise leadership of the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un and referred to the line and policy of the Party on the struggle against the United States and the enemy.
  Liu Jianchao said General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China warmly welcome and attach great importance to the delegation of the WPK on a visit to China in the year of Sino-Korean friendship. He stressed that during its visit, the delegation will feel the will of the Communist Party of China to constantly develop the traditional relations of friendship between China and the DPRK.
  At the talks, both sides reconfirmed the mutual support to the policies adopted by the two parties and two countries in the socialist construction and the field of external relations and expressed the stand to expand the cooperation between the external affairs departments of the parties for strengthening and developing the bilateral relations in an all-round way with a long-term and prospective insight on the firm basis of the development of the friendly relations provided by the top leaders of the two parties.
  Present at the talks from the Korean side were members of the delegation of the WPK and the ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the DPRK to China, and from the Chinese side, officials of the International Liaison Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
  That day, the delegation of the WPK was invited to the welcome reception hosted by Liu Jianchao.