Xi-Kim hold surprise meeting in Beijing; vows to enhance mutual ties and support

Beijing, March 28: North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un made a surprise visit to China and held talks with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping from March 25 to 28. Jinping talking about Kim and his wife Ri Sol Ju's visit said that he speaks highly of it. He promised China would uphold its friendship with its isolated neighbour.

According to China's state-run Xinhua news agency, Xi said Kim's current visit to China, fully embodied the great importance. Xi said the China-DPRK traditional friendship, established and cultivated meticulously by the elder generations of leaders of both parties and both countries, was the precious wealth of both sides.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has pledged to denuclearise the Korean peninsula. According to Xinhua, Kim said issue of denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula can be resolved, if South Korea and the United States respond to North Korea's efforts with goodwill, create an atmosphere of peace and stability.

At present, the Korean Peninsula situation is developing rapidly and many important changes have taken place, Kim said, adding that he felt he should come in time to inform Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping in person the situation out of comradeship and moral responsibility.

Sharing common ideals and beliefs as well as profound revolutionary friendship, the elder generations of leaders of the two countries trusted and supported each other, and wrote a fine story in the history of international relations, said Xi.

"Both Comrade Chairman and I have personally experienced and witnessed the development of China-DPRK relationship," said Xi, adding that both sides have stated repeatedly that traditional China-DPRK friendship should be passed on continuously and developed better.

"This is a strategic choice and the only right choice both sides have made based on history and reality, the international and regional structure and the general situation of China-DPRK ties. This should not and will not change because of any single event at a particular time," Xi said.

The CPC and the Chinese government highly value China-DPRK friendly cooperative ties, Xi stressed. It is an unswerving principle of the CPC and the Chinese government to maintain, consolidate and develop good relations with the DPRK, he said.

Kim said he was greatly encouraged and inspired by General Secretary Xi's important views on DPRK-China friendship and the development of relations between the two parties and countries.

The DPRK-China friendship, which was founded and nurtured by the elder generations of leaders of both countries, is unshakable, he said. It is a strategic choice of the DPRK to pass on and develop friendship with China under the new situation, and it will remain unchanged under any circumstances.

Kim said his current visit aims to meet Chinese comrades, enhance strategic communication, and deepen traditional friendship, hoping to have opportunities to meet with Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping often, and keep close contacts through such forms as sending special envoys and personal letters to each other, so as to promote to a new level the guidance of high-level meetings to the relations between the two parties and countries.

Kim paid a four-day unofficial visit from Sunday to Wednesday at the invitation of the President. Kim reportedly arrived in China by a special train from across the border and left in the same train.