2023-04-18 05:54:00
This message of support comes as North Korea has increased its weapons tests in recent months, arousing the disapproval of the United States and its Japanese, South Korean and Western allies.
“The traditional friendship” between China and North Korea “has long stood the tests of changes in the international situation,” Xi Jinping told Kim Jong Un in a message quoted by the North Korean state agency. KCNA.
“I will not stop working to take the friendship and cooperation between the two sides to the next level,” added the Chinese president, stressing that international relations in the world and in Asia “are changing. seriously and in a complicated way”.
KCNA released the message shortly before a joint statement by G7 foreign ministers condemning North Korea’s weapons tests, and demanding that it refrain from any further nuclear tests or ballistic missile launches or risk being punished. a “rapid, united and robust international response”.
China is North Korea’s main ally and biggest economic backer. The relationship between the two countries was forged during the Korean War (1950-1953) when Mao Tse-Tung sent millions of “volunteers” to fight the United Nations forces led by the United States.
In 1961, Beijing and Pyongyang signed a treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance in the event of an armed attack. Mao then described the allies as being as close as “lips and teeth”.
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