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Congratulations to President of State Affairs Kim Jong Un from Chinese President
  The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, received a message of greetings from Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, on the 9th.
  The message sent hearty congratulations to Kim Jong Un, the WPK and the government and people of the DPRK on the occasion of the 76th founding anniversary of the DPRK, and said.
  The Korean people have promoted the dynamic development of all state affairs, single-heartedly united under the leadership of the WPK over the past 76 years.
  In recent years, you have led the Korean Party and people to thoroughly implement the spirit of the Eighth Congress of the Party and the plenary meetings of its central committee, and thus achieved some successes in the construction and development. I believe that the Korean people will surely win continued fresh and greater victories on the road of accelerating the cause of Korean-style socialism under the leadership of the WPK headed by you.
  China and the DPRK border on the same mountain and rivers and their traditional friendship has grown stronger as the days go by. This year is the year marking the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the DPRK and the "year of China-DPRK friendship".
  In the new period and new situation, the Chinese side will continue to view and approach the China-DPRK relations on a strategic height and from a long-term angle. It has a willingness to intensify strategic communication and strengthen coordination and cooperation together with the Korean side so as to jointly and excellently defend, consolidate and develop the traditional relations of friendship and cooperation between China and the DPRK and jointly promote the socialist cause and thus provide the peoples of the two countries with greater well-being and make a greater contribution to peace, stability, development and prosperity of the region and the world.
  The message wished the DPRK prosperity and its people happiness and security.