North Korea’s Kim Jong Un told China’s President Xi Jinping that it was his “steadfast will” to “steadily develop” bilateral relations, state media said Friday, after the two leaders met in Beijing.

The two men held talks Thursday evening at the Chinese capital’s Great Hall of the People, where Kim affirmed the “friendly feelings” between the two countries, Pyongyang’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

Kim has been on a rare foreign visit to China, his most important ally, joining Russia’s Vladimir Putin alongside Xi at a massive military parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II.

“It is the steadfast will of the WPK (Workers’ Party of Korea) and the government… to steadily develop the DPRK-China relations,” Kim was quoted as saying by KCNA, using th

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