A shared experience provided the background when senior cadres from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and China met in Pyongyang on Thursday.

Choe Thae Bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of the DPRK met a delegation of cadres from the Communist Party of China led by Wang Wei, vice-minister of Supervision of China.

Choe said the traditional friendship created by revolutionaries of the elder generation of the two countries was a "common treasure" to the two peoples. It was the DPRK government's unswerving stand to keep improving the DPRK-China relationship and he believed this would be the case.

The two countries were holding a series of celebratory activities this year, which was the DPRK-China friendship year, said Choe.

Wang said 2009 marked the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries and the China-DPRK friendship year.

China would make more effort to consolidate and promote the friendly and cooperative ties with the DPRK, Wang said.

The Chinese delegation arrived in Pyongyang on Monday and will leave Friday.

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