Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visits Central Cadres Training School of WPK and plants tree with Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of CPC Central Committee and President of PRC

June 10, 2026

Comrade Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, on a state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, visited the Central Cadres Training School of the Workers' Party of Korea on June 9.

Comrade Kim Jong Un, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and President of the State Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, accompanied him at the school.

Among the Chinese visitors were Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, member of the Secretariat and director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee and minister of Foreign Affairs, and other entourage members and Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

Present there were secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, including Kim Jae Ryong and Ri Il Hwan, members of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee.

Being honoured to have the great leaders of the two parties on its campus soon after it marked its 80th founding anniversary, the supreme political school of the DPRK was filled with a warm atmosphere of welcoming them at a historic time when communication, concerted action and close cooperation between the two ruling parties of the two countries which are advancing by holding aloft the banner of socialism invariably have reached a new strategic level.

Comrade Kim Jong Un greeted Comrade Xi Jinping at the school.

A teacher presented a bouquet to Comrade Xi Jinping in welcome of his visit to the school.

Comrade Xi Jinping went round the school, guided by Comrade Kim Jong Un.

Comrade Kim Jong Un briefed him on the history of the school which has contributed to the cause of building the working-class Party by performing its sacred mission and role to guarantee the lifeline and future of the Party for a long period of the Korean revolution.

Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Xi Jinping inspected a lecture on the Party policy at Hall No. 3.

Comrade Xi Jinping appreciated that the school was wonderfully built as befits the “pedigree farm” for training the backbone who would guarantee the permanent future of the socialist ruling Party, and that it is concentrating its efforts on arming the students with theories and spirit and improving their qualifications for training Party cadres, while deeply imbuing them with the innovative ideas and theories of the WPK.

The students expressed gratitude to the top leaders of the two parties with enthusiastic applause for their visit to the school on the occasion of great importance in the history of the development of the DPRK-China relations in the new era, which would remain forever in their memory.

The top leaders of the two parties took an electric car to go round the campus of the school while exchanging open-hearted views on the system of training future party cadres and the educational system and teaching contents peculiar to Party school.

They expressed their willingness to exert common efforts to make party cadres training schools play a proper role in strengthening the parties together while exchanging in depth the excellent party-building experience and earnestly learning from each other by further expanding and developing exchanges and cooperation between the two parties of the DPRK and China.

Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Xi Jinping planted a tree together in commemoration of their visit to the school.

A fir tree took root in the sacred land, conveying the noble intention of the top leaders of the two parties to open up a new chapter of firm comradely friendship, revolutionary unity and genuine support and cooperation between the two parties and peoples of the two countries and shape a more beautiful and rosier future.

A monument to the meaningful tree-planting was unveiled.

When Kim Jae Ryong, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the WPK Central Committee, and Cai Qi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau, member of the Secretariat and director of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee, unveiled the monument together, leading officials and entourages of both sides and teaching staff and students of the school enthusiastically clapped, looking up to the top leaders who are adding glory to the new era of development of the friendly relations between the two parties and two countries.

Inscribed on the monument were the letters in Korean and Chinese reading "DPRK-China friendship will be evergreen. Tree planted by Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Xi Jinping on June 9, 2026".

Comrade Kim Jong Un and Comrade Xi Jinping had a photo taken against the background of the tree and monument.

KCNA

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