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Chinese envoy reaffirms policy to advance traditional friendship with N. Korea: newspaper

SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Yonhap) -- China's Ambassador to North Korea Wang Yajun has reaffirmed Beijing's "unwavering" policy to advance the traditional friendship with North Korea, a North Korean newspaper reported Friday.

"Safeguarding, cementing and advancing the traditional China-North Korea friendship is the Chinese party, and the government's unwavering policy," the Rodong Sinmun newspaper quoted Wang as saying at a Lunar New Year address at the Chinese Embassy in Pyongyang the previous day.

Wang also reaffirmed his country's willingness to advance the two countries' socialist causes and well-being and to safeguard regional peace and security by thoroughly accomplishing what their leaders have agreed on, the paper said.

The message was delivered at a banquet at the Chinese Embassy the previous day, which was attended by Kang Yun-sok, vice chairman of the parliamentary standing committee; Vice Foreign Minister Pak Myong-ho; and other North Korean officials.

In his own speech, Kang pledged "joint efforts with Chinese comrades" to advance bilateral relations this year.

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