Xinhua news agency, Pyongyang, 25 November Xinhua (reporter Zhang Binyang Yao Ximeng) the Korean Workers Party General Secretary, chairman of the National Defense Commission, supreme commander of the Korean people's army Kim Jong Il 25, met in Pyongyang with North Korea is visiting Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Liang guanglie.

    Kim Jong Il on Liang Guanglie welcome, and spoke highly of the DPRK China friendship. He said, the DPRK China friendship is the older generation of leaders personally created and transmitted to our valuable heritage, after the test of history and be too strong to break. This year, both sides to celebrate the year of China DPRK friendship, hope to continue to work hard, to strengthen the friendly relations between the two countries.

    Kim Jong Il, the military to military relationship is an important part of bilateral relations, and hoped that the two sides continue to strengthen exchanges and cooperation, to continue to consolidate and develop the friendly relations between the new effort.

    Kim Jong Il highly praised the achievements made in Chinese people and army to Comrade Hu Jintao as general secretary of the Communist Party of China's leadership, and sincerely wish China construction undertakings development.

    Kim Jong Il also asked Liang Guanglie conveys him to General Secretary Hu Jintao and other leaders of China's cordial greetings and good wishes.

    Liang Guanglie thanks to Kim Jong Il cordial and friendly meeting, and conveyed the General Secretary Hu Jintao and other Chinese leaders greetings and best wishes. Liang Guanglie said, bilateral traditional friendship and nurtured by the revolutionaries of the older generation of experience all kinds of trials and hardships, show a strong vitality in the joint efforts of both sides. Consolidate and develop the good neighborly relations of friendship and cooperation is the Chinese party and government policy not to move or retreat. China is ready to work with the DPRK, the spirit of "inheriting the tradition, facing the future, good neighborliness and friendship, strengthen cooperation" the spirit, efforts to expand the breadth and depth of friendly cooperation between the two countries, so as to benefit the two peoples, and make positive efforts for the Northeast Asia and the world peace and stability and development.

    Chinese people's Liberation Army Political Commissar of the Shenyang military region Huang Xianzhong, Ji'nan military region deputy commander Feng Zhaoju, deputy commander of Nanjing military region and the Navy's East China Sea Fleet commander Xu Hongmeng, deputy commander of Nanjing military region and the military commander of the air force Jiang Jianceng and Chinese Ambassador Liu Xiaoming attended the meeting.