Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il's repeated China visit clearly indicates the solidity of Sino-DPRK friendship. Meng Jianzhu, State councilor and minister of Public Security of China, said this when meeting the friendship visiting group of the Ministry of People's Security of the DPRK led by Kim Chol Ung, chief of Staff of the Ministry of People's Security, in Beijing on Friday. Meng recalled with deep emotion the day he was received by Kim Jong Il during his visit to the DPRK.

He referred to the visit paid by Kim Jong Il to Northeast China again recently and expressed the belief that the relations of friendship and cooperation between the public security organs of the two countries would grow stronger.