Xi Jinping urges stronger China-North Korea ‘combat friendship forged in blood’

Chinese leader also calls to boost strategic coordination as North Korean premier visits Beijing to mark 65th anniversary of defence pact Xi told Pak that his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had provided “strategic guidance” for developing bilateral ties, injecting them with “new meaning in the current era”, according to state broadcaster CCTV. “Friendship across generations, shared destiny and mutual support have always been defining features of [our] bilateral ties,” Xi added. He said the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance – signed on July 11, 1961, and China’s only formal mutual defence pact – laid an important political and legal foundation for consolidating the “combat friendship forged in blood” by the two peoples.

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