North Korean party committee secretary receives Chinese media delegation.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

Text of report in English by North Korean news agency KCNA

Pyongyang, 8 December: Choe Thae-bok, secretary of the Central Committee of the Korean Workers' Party, met and had a friendly conversation with a delegation of the Chinese People's Daily led by its Vice-President He Chongyuan at the Mansudae Assembly Hall Thursday [8 December].

The head of the delegation said that the Korean people have achieved shining successes in socialist construction over the last decade by fully displaying the revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and fortitude …