North Korea will strive to strengthen its traditional friendship
with China, said Yang Hyong-sop, vice president of the Presidium of
the Supreme People's Assembly of North Korea, on Friday.
Yang made the remarks while meeting with new Chinese Ambassador
to North Korea Liu Xiaoming at Mansudae Assembly Hall in
Pyongyang.
"It's a firm policy of North Korea to make efforts to strengthen
the traditional friendship with China," Yang said.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Chinese government
attach great importance to the bilateral friendship, Liu said.
China will work with North Korea to strengthen cooperation and
continuously enrich the content of the bilateral friendship and
cooperation, Liu added.
Liu arrived in Pyongyang last Friday.
(Xinhua News Agency September 15, 2006)
