Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visits Dandong City, Liaoning Province of PRC

October 25, 2026

Respected 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, visited Dandong City, Liaoning Province of the People's Republic of China, and toured the Memorial Hall of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea on October 24 to mark the 76th anniversary of the entry of the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) into the Korean front.

The memorial hall is a monument to great friendship, which always brings closer the peoples of the two countries while conveying forever the sacred and excellent history of the DPRK-China friendship and their invincible unity, which the two countries have creditably carried forward and developed from one century to the next and generation after generation by forging genuine comradely relations and militant friendship in the course of achieving the common ideal for socialism and in the bloody struggle against imperialist aggression.

Comrade Kim Jong Un was accompanied by Jo Yong Won, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the WPK, Choe Son Hui, foreign minister of the DPRK, Ri Il Hwan and Kim Song Nam, secretaries of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Tok Hun, first vice-premier of the DPRK Cabinet, Kim Yo Jong, department director of the WPK Central Committee, Kim Jae Ryong, first deputy department director of the WPK Central Committee, other senior Party and government officials and Ri Ryong Nam, DPRK ambassador to China.

Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was on the spot to greet Comrade Kim Jong Un who would visit the historic place where the CPV was dispatched and the friendship and unity between the two countries began.

Also present there were 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, Liu Haixing, head of the International Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, Ma Zhaoxu, executive vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, Xu Kunlin, secretary of the Liaoning Provincial Committee of the CPC, Jiang Bing, secretary of the Dandong City Committee of the CPC, other leading cadres in the capital and local areas of China and Wang Yajun, Chinese ambassador to the DPRK.

Comrade Kim Jong Un exchanged warm greetings with Wang Huning and other cadres of the Chinese side.

A cute child presented a fragrant bouquet to Comrade Kim Jong Un on the visit to the frontier city of the PRC and a large number of children welcomed the head of state of the DPRK, waving the national flags of the two countries.

Comrade Kim Jong Un expressed heartfelt thanks for the enthusiastic welcome.

There was a ceremony of laying a flower basket at the Monument to Resisting America and Aiding Korea.

The national anthems of the DPRK and the PRC were played solemnly.

The flower basket was laid before the monument as a token of deep respect for the great annals and history and in sincere remembrance of the undying feats of the CPV officers and men.

Written on the ribbon of the flower basket were the letters reading: "We will remember forever the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers. 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".

Comrade Kim Jong Un paid tribute to the martyrs of the CPV.

He said that the DPRK people would remember forever the glorious years when they fought together with the Chinese people and convey generation after generation the eternal thanks to the Chinese people for helping our revolution at the cost of their blood. 

He went round the Museum of the War of Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea, guided by Wang Huning.

Looking at the records and lots of other exhibits vividly showing the great history, he said that the memorial hall is the precious verification by blood of the invincible DPRK-China friendship. He affirmed the will of the Korean Party, government and people to remember and defend forever the excellent history in which the two countries braved ordeals together and firmly carry forward forever the invincible bilateral friendship forged at the cost of blood.

He presented a plaque with historic photographs of President Kim Il Sung on it in commemoration of his visit to the museum.

He wrote the following letters on the plaque: "The righteous soul and spirit that defended peace is alive in the great historic pictures. I offer eternal thanks and pay eternal respect to the martyrs of the Chinese People's Volunteers, recollecting with deep reverence their traces that connected the boundaries of the two countries into a contiguous line. Kim Jong Un October 24, 2026".

After the visit, Comrade Kim Jong Un had a friendly conversation with Wang Huning.

He said: It is a natural duty and obligation to recollect with deep reverence the great years and history at the place where the CPV soldiers were dispatched. It was a moment when we recollected once again the preciousness of the DPRK-China friendship forged with blood. We will always remember generation after generation the history when the excellent sons and daughters of the Chinese people helped our revolution at the cost of their blood and steadily and firmly carry forward the history of the DPRK-China friendship. I extend thanks to esteemed Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping for paying special and close attention to our visit today. I ask you to convey my warm greetings and best wishes to Comrade Xi Jinping. And I also extend deep gratitude for the warm hospitality accorded by Dandong City and Liaoning Province.

Saying that the high international prestige and dignity of the People's Republic of China today are the due result of the strenuous struggle waged by the Chinese people under the wise leadership of the Communist Party of China with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, Comrade Kim Jong Un stated that the remarkable successes of the socialist neighbour are encouraging the Korean people in their struggle.

Courteously conveying the friendly greetings and best wishes from Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping to Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un, Wang Huning said that Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un's visit to Dandong City and the Museum of the War of Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea on the significant occasion of the 76th anniversary of the CPV's entry into the Korean front is of great significance in steadily carrying forward and developing the traditional China-DPRK friendship and militant fraternity.

According to the special instruction of Comrade Xi Jinping, Wang Huning hosted a reception in welcome of Comrade Kim Jong Un's visit to the PRC.

The reception proceeded in a friendly and comradely atmosphere.

That day, Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Dandong City Bus Factory.

He was greeted by a leading official of the factory.

The workers of the factory warmly welcomed him to their workplace.

Comrade Kim Jong Un went round different places of the factory to see various kinds of products.

Wishing the factory with an excellent history and potentiality greater success, he sent sincere encouragement to the technical group and workers of the factory for their unremitting innovations and efforts.

He crossed the DPRK-China Amnok River Bridge to return home.

Wang Huning, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and other leading cadres in the capital and local areas of China accompanied Comrade Kim Jong Un to the middle point of the bridge to see him off.

Comrade Kim Jong Un was also seen off by lovely children.

He asked Wang Huning to convey his warm greetings to esteemed Comrade General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Enjoying a bird's-eye view at the middle point of the newly-inaugurated bridge, he expressed his expectations that the bridge would undoubtedly and correctly fulfill its historic mission of linking the two countries and firmly joining the minds of the peoples of the two countries.

Comrade Kim Jong Un had a photo taken with Wang Huning on the bridge and exchanged farewells with leading cadres of the Chinese side.

He sincerely hoped that the Chinese party and government would carry on the course of the rapid development of the PRC, filling it with better and plentiful successes, under the experienced and seasoned leadership of Comrade Xi Jinping.

Comrade Kim Jong Un's visit to the People's Republic of China on the occasion of the 76th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers' entry into the Korean front will be recorded in history as a significant occasion of clearly showing the invariability and invincibility of the DPRK-China friendship and solidarity strong with the most genuine blood ties and true comradely relations. 

KCNA

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