Xi greets Kim over DPRK's 72nd founding anniversary

President Xi Jinping congratulated Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, on Wednesday on the 72nd anniversary of the country's founding. Xi said he is willing to work with Kim to enhance the two nations' traditional friendship and cooperation.

In a message to Kim, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, conveyed warm congratulations and greetings to the WPK and to the DPRK government and people on behalf of the CPC and the Chinese government and people.

Xi said that since it was founded 72 years ago, the DPRK has achieved robust development in its socialist cause under the leadership of the WPK.