Generation change will not affect NKorea-China ties: Kim
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il told Chinese President Hu Jintao relations between the two nations will not be changed by the "replacement of one generation by a new one," KCNA reported yesterday.
"The long-standing DPRK (North Korea)-China friendship will remain unchanged despite the passage of time and the replacement of one generation by a new one as it stood tempest and test of history," he said.
Hu said that the traditional friendship is an asset to both countries, which both have a historic responsibility to maintain and improve it "along with the passage of time and convey it down through generations."
The remarks from the two leaders came as Kim Jong-Il is reportedly grooming his third son, Jong-Un, to be his successor as leader of the secretive communist state, a position he inherited from his father.
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