Premier Wen meets DPRK top legislator

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-10-05 20:20

PYONGYANG - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao met here Monday with Kim Yong Nam, top legislator of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and both sides stressed the need to further strengthen cooperation between the two countries.

Wen, who arrived here Sunday for a three-day visit, said good-neighborliness and generation-after-generation friendship between the two countries serve the fundamental interests of the two peoples.

Thanks to joint efforts of both sides, the traditional friendship between the two countries has stood the test of time, is being further consolidated and developed, and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the two peoples, Wen told Kim, president of the presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK.

Wen said both China and the DPRK face important tasks of developing their respective economies and improving people's standard of living, and need to make further efforts to strengthen friendly cooperation between them.

He said both sides should take the 60th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties as an opportunity to review and draw on the development experiences of bilateral ties in the past 60 years in the interest of better carrying on the China-DPRK friendship, promoting common development and maintaining regional and world peace.