SEOUL, Jun 30 (NNN-YONHAP) – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) held a ceremony Wednesday, to mark the completion of an interior remodelling project for the China-DPRK Friendship Tower in Pyongyang.
Choe Ryong-hae, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) and chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of DPRK, attended the ceremony, among other officials from the country’s ruling party, government and armed forces, as well as, citizens of the capital city.
At the invitation of the DPRK side, Chinese Ambassador to the DPRK, Wang Yajun, attended the ceremony.
Im Kyong Jae, minister of urban management of the DPRK, said at the ceremony that, the Friendship Tower has been a proof and symbol of the DPRK-China friendship.
The successful completion of the interior remodelling project bears important significance in inheriting through generations, the spirit of the martyrs of the Chinese People’s Volunteers (CPV), he added.
Wang said that, the successful completion of the project demonstrated the importance, the DPRK attaches to bilateral ties under the new circumstances.
He stressed that, under the strategic design and guidance of the top leaders of China and the DPRK, the traditional friendship between the two countries has been lifted to a new and higher level.
The speeches were followed by a solemn wreath-laying ceremony, and all participants observed a moment of silence in honour of the CPV martyrs.
The Friendship Tower was built in 1959 in Pyongyang, to commemorate the martyrs of the Chinese People’s Volunteers, who sacrificed their lives during the Korean War.– NNN-YONHAP
